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Walk-over   Listen
noun
Walk-over  n.  
1.
In racing, the going over a course by a horse which has no competitor for the prize.
2.
Hence: (colloquially) A one-sided contest; an uncontested, or an easy, victory.
Synonyms: walk; cake-walk.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Walk-over" Quotes from Famous Books



... thought the right thoughts: and in the Spring of her third year had succeeded in curing Bingley of his habit of beginning his remarks with the words "Say, lemme tell ya something." Her progress, in short, was beginning to assume the aspect of a walk-over. ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... at the WALK-OVER Stores, where they can apply for any information, and where all possible services of any kind will ...
— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces

... the story of Lemuel Hostitter, who kept the corner grocery in my old town, naturally comes to mind. Lem was probably the meanest white man in the State of Missouri, and it wasn't any walk-over to hold the belt in those days. Most grocers were satisfied to adulterate their coffee with ground peas, but Lem was so blamed mean that he adulterated the peas first. Bought skin-bruised hams and claimed that the bruise was his private and particular brand, stamped in the skin, showing that ...
— Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer



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