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Same rules, hostile crowd, and the referee suddenly can't hear your coach.
means A match or contest played on the opponent's home turf, where none of the comforts of home apply.
from A straightforward compound from sports usage: 'home' games are played at your own ground, 'away' games are played at the opposing team's ground — 'away' here keeping its plain old English sense (from 'onweg,' meaning 'on the way,' i.e., off/elsewhere) extended metaphorically to any situation where you're operating on someone else's territory, under someone else's rules and crowd.
- travel toll
- teams historically win noticeably less on the road
- origin
- term predates modern sports, from war campaigns abroad
- crowd effect
- boos measurably raise opposing players' error rates
- idiom use
- now means any situation on someone else's turf