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Thus 'away back' was used by a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, in a Third Programme talk (II]ul 1954). However it is difficult to know how to classify this fuller form, for it may be (a) a direct adoption of the American full form, (b) a British remodelling of 'way' into 'away', or (c) an extension of an older British - but probably provincial usage. So far as this last is concerned, we find in a book published in 1895, The Maister, A Century oj Tyneside Life, that 'the "Keelers" of Tynemouth were a recognised class away back in the days of the early charters' (p.
It is evident that the sentence used by the Daily Express was American in essence, having passed through some American intermediary on the way from Bombay to Fleet Street. Presumably some vigilant sub-editor ought to have translated it into British idiom, and indeed the usual expression is found on the same page, lower down the column, where we can read the heading MOB THROWS STONES IN PARLIAMENT. This type of influence is accidental and unconscious, but at the same time it cannot be doubted that some British journalists deliberately ape American style and vocabulary.
K. Chesterton wrote in his essay on Fear, 'I know a grown-up man who is still frightened of the dark'. But the American phrase grown man leaves out the preposition and this neologism is now taking hold in Britain. ) To cash in on is now standard usage, as in Duff Cooper's Old Men Forget, in which he wrote in 1953 that ' ... it would be as well to precipitate a General Election so as to cash in on our triumph' (p. 251). It will be seen from this example that the allusion is figurative and indeed the idiom does not necessarily imply any financial gain, so that the advantage involved is often one of a rather abstract kind.