[f. vbl. phrase walk over: see WALK v.1 7 c.] 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.
1838. Times, 29 June, 8/3. [Election at Cashel] I think it not unlikely that Mr. Richard Moore may have a walk over.
1861. Sporting Rev., Oct., 249. Kettledrum’s walk-over was quite a little tit-bit for the Yorkshiremen.
1889. F. Remington, in Century Mag., July, 403/1. That ’s the bay stallion there,… and he ’s never been beaten. It ’s his walk-over, and I ’ve got my gun up on him with an Injun.
