walk off with
Verb
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Verb
- (idiomatic) To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.
- 1871, Horatio Alger, Paul the Peddler, ch. 12:
- While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt.
- 1903, Jack London, "The Leopard Man's Story":
- I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife.
- 2011 April 11, Sara J. Welch, "Gee, How Did That Towel End Up in My Suitcase? ↗," New York Times (retrieved 15 May 2011):
- Hotel guests may want to think twice now before walking off with that bathrobe.
- 1871, Horatio Alger, Paul the Peddler, ch. 12:
- (idiomatic) To win, as in a contest and especially without significant effort.
- 1964, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939547,00.html Tennis: A 12th for Harry]," Time, 9 Oct.:
- Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup.
- 1964, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,939547,00.html Tennis: A 12th for Harry]," Time, 9 Oct.:
- (idiomatic, performing arts, of a performer) To make the strongest favorable impression in a theatrical or similar performance, in comparison to other performers.
- 1942, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773474,00.html Cinema: New Picture]" (film review of The Pied Piper), Time, 10 Aug.:
- But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children.
- 2002 1 Oct., Anne Midgette, "Met Opera Review: A Prince Charming More Than Charming ↗," New York Times (retrieved 15 May 2011):
- But in "La Cenerentola," Rossini's version of the fairy tale, which returned to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday night, Juan Diego Flórez, the 29-year-old Peruvian tenor, walked off with the show.
- 1942, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,773474,00.html Cinema: New Picture]" (film review of The Pied Piper), Time, 10 Aug.:
- (steal) abscond with, pilfer, thieve (verb)
- (performing arts) steal the show the show
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