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[wawk-uh-round] /ˈwɔk əˌraʊnd/ noun 1. extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- Walkathon
noun 1. a long-distance walking race for testing endurance. 2. such a contest held to raise funds for a charity or special cause, with supporters or sponsors pledging to donate a sum for a specific contestant or team for each mile walked or for the total miles covered.
- Walk a tightrope
Also, be on a tightrope. Take or be on a very precarious course, as in A university press must walk a tightrope to publish scholarly books and still make money, or The general was on a tightrope as to whether he should advance or retreat. This idiom transfers the balancing act performed by tightrope or […]
- Walkaway
noun 1. an easy victory or conquest. 2. a patient or inmate who escapes from an institution by walking away when not being supervised or guarded. walk
- Walk away from
walk all over someone walk away from 1. Survive an accident with little injury, as in They were lucky to walk away from that collision. [ Second half of 1900s ] 2. Refuse to deal with or become involved, abandon, as in No parent finds it easy to walk away from a child in trouble. […]