List of Idioms Walk is the text for the Livescape audio-visual presentation of idioms connected to the word 'Walk'.

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LIST OF IDIOMS WALK

A List of Idioms all containing the word 'walk'.+ Nouns, Verbs and Phrasal Verbs.

To walk – (walks, walking, walked) to move on foot at an ordinary speed. Sometimes I go to work by car, but usually I walk.

NOUNS

Walk – A journey on foot. The weather's nice today. Let's go for a long walk.

Walk – A path, a route for walking. In Santander there's a good walk along the cliffs.

Walk – a way of walking. Charlie Chaplin had a funny walk.

Walk – Walk of life, a job or profession. What walk of life are you in? I'm a lawyer.

Walker – somebody who walks.

Walkie-talkie – a portable radio telephone.

Walking-stick – A stick used by a person when walking.

Walk-over – an easy victory. The tennis player couldn't finish his game because of injury, so his opponent had a walk-over into the next round.

PHRASAL VERBS

Walk away from – Leave something you don't like. Example: You have to face your problems you can't just WALK AWAY FROM them.

Walk away with – Win easily. Example: He was a much better boxer and he WALKED AWAY WITH the fight.

Walk in on – Enter somewhere unexpectedly and see something. Example: He WALKED IN ON them planning to sack him.

Walk into – Get work without effort. Example: She WALKED INTO a great job straight after university.

Walk into – Be unaware of the presence of something and enter it (a trap). Example: You WALKED INTO that one [You became victim to a trap I set, perhaps playing cards].

Walk into – Be unaware of the presence of something and bump into it (an obstruction) Example: I WALKED INTO a door and broke my nose.

Walk off - Go for a walk to reduce the effects of an illness or bad feeling. Example: He tried to WALK OFF his hangover.

Walk off with - Win easily. Example: He WALKED OFF WITH the first prize in the gardening competition.

Walk off with - Take something without permission or steal. Example: I left my umbrella at the pub and someone WALKED OFF WITH it.

Walk on - Continue walking. Example: She saw the accident but just WALKED ON as she didn't want to become involved.

Walk out - Leave work because of a dispute with the management. Example: The workers WALKED OUT because they wanted higher wages.

Walk out - Leave a place angrily or because you are not satisfied. Example: The film was boring so I WALKED OUT halfway through.

Walk out on - Leave somebody angrily. Example: He was always arguing with his wife and he WALKED OUT ON her last year.

Walk up - Go to someone. Example: A man WALKED UP and asked me the way to the station.

IDIOMS

Walking on air – If you are walking on air, you are so happy that you feel as if you could float.

Walking time bomb – A person whose behaviour is erratic and totally unpredictable is a walking time-bomb.

Walking encyclopaedia – A very knowledgeable person is a walking encyclopedia.

Walking on broken glass – When a person is punished for something. e.g. 'She had me walking on broken glass.'

Walk the plank – If someone walks the plank, they are going toward their own destruction or downfall.

Walk a tightrope – If you walk a tightrope, you have to be very careful not to annoy or anger people who could become enemies.

Walk a fine line – If you have to walk a fine line, you have to be very careful not to annoy or anger people or groups that are competing. ('Walk a thin line' is an alternative.)

Walk in the park – An undertaking that is easy is a walk in the park.

Walk on eggshells – If you have to walk on eggshells when with someone, you have to be very careful because they get angry or offended very easily.

Walk the green mile – Someone or something that is walking the green mile is heading towards the inevitable.

Walk a mile in my shoes – This idiom means that you should try to understand someone before criticising them.

Cock of the walk – A man who is excessively confident and thinks he's better than other people is the cock of the walk.

Run before you walk – If someone tries to run before they can walk, they try to do something requiring a high level of knowledge before they have learned the basics.

Dead man walking – A dead man walking is someone who is in great trouble and will certainly get punished, or lose their job or position, etc, soon.