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walk over

To dominate, treat (someone) as inferior.

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  • 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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Submitted on July 07, 2010

Additional definitions for 'walk over':

walk overUsed other than as an idiom: to walk over.
walk overTo gain an easy victory.
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