walk off with

Definitions

1. 1

   To steal, especially by surreptitiously removing an unguarded item.

   • While Mike Donovan was engaged in his contest with Paul, his companion had quietly walked off with the shirt.
   • I went looking for Red Denny, the head canvas-man, who had walked off with my pocket-knife.
   • Hotel guests may want to think twice now before walking off with that bathrobe.
2. 2

   To win, as in a contest and especially without significant effort.

   • Last week in Cleveland, Harry Hopman's Aussies walked off with tennis' top trophy, the Davis Cup.
3. 3

   To make the strongest favorable impression in a theatrical or similar performance, in…

   To make the strongest favorable impression in a theatrical or similar performance, in comparison to other performers.

   • But kindliness does not prevent elegant Actor Woolley from walking off with the picture against the trying competition of six scene-stealing children.
   • 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.

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