cake walk vs walkover

cake walk

noun
  • Something extremely easy. 

  • A type of dance originating in the United States in the 19th century. 

  • From the mid 1900s, a game at a fair or party in which people walk around a numbered circle along to music. When the music is stopped, the caller draws a number from a jar and whoever is standing on or closest to that number wins a cake. 

walkover

noun
  • Someone easy to defeat. 

  • An easy victory; a walkaway. 

  • An ecological survey carried out by walking across and examining a piece of land. 

  • A bye or victory awarded to a competitor when a scheduled opponent fails to play a game. 

  • Someone who does not stand up for themself when mistreated; a doormat 

  • A horse race with only one entrant. 

  • A backbend combined with a handstand. 

  • A type of railroad passenger car seat, having reversible seat backs that can be moved across the seat to face either direction of travel 

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