walk over

In the sense of gaining an easy victory, refers to a horse going over a racecourse at a walk when there is no other entry.

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walk over (third-person singular simple present walks over, present participle walking over, simple past and past participle walked over)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to walk over.

   walk over the bridge

2. (idiomatic) To gain an easy victory.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To dominate, treat (someone) as inferior.

• overwalk

• walkover

Borrowed from English walkover. First attested in 1870.

walk over c

1. (sports) absence from a competition (despite being scheduled to compete); walkover

   lämna walk over

   forfeit a game

   (literally, “leave walk over [idiomatic and sometimes also figuratively of pulling out of something or the like]”)

   vinna på walk over

   win by default

   (literally, “win on walk over [because the competition forfeited the game]”)

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