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walk-over
[f. vbl. phrase walk over: see walk v.1 7 c.]
a. A race in which through absence of competitors the winner has merely to ‘walk over’; also in extended sense, a contest in which through the inferiority of his competitors the winner has practically no opposition.
1838Times 29 June 8/3 [Election at Cashel] I think it not unlikely that Mr. Richard Moore may have a walk over. 1861Sporting Rev. Oct. 249 Kettledrum's walk-over was quite a little tit-bit for the Yorkshiremen. 1889Century Mag. July 403/1 That's the bay stallion there,..and he's never been beaten. It's his walk-over.
b. transf. Anything accomplished with great ease.
1902G. H. Lorimer Lett. Self-Made Merchant xv. 216 It wasn't any walk-over to hold the belt in those days. 1931Daily Tel. 21 Jan. 8/4 This makes its acquisition by an American crook a walk-over. 1975P. Fussell Gt. War & Mod. Memory (1977) i. 27 His little sporting contest did have the effect of persuading his men that the attack was going to be..a walkover.
c. attrib. or as adj.
1936Sunday Times 14 June 4/2 When the law gets them in its clutches, a shady lawyer is allowed to get a walkover verdict of ‘Not Guilty’. 1974Times 5 Oct. 14/7 Lauda seemed set for almost a walkover trip to the title (he proved himself the fastest driver..nine times this year). |