PHRASAL VERB
If you walk away with something such as a prize, you win it or get it very easily.[ JOURNALISM ]
- Enter our competition and you could walk away with £10,000.
- = walk off with
....... Cobuild
walk away with (someone or an animal) :
to lead, take, accompany, or carry someone or an animal away.
- I walked away with my brother.
- The young man walked away with the heifer.
walk away with something (also walk off with something) :
1. Fig. to win something easily. (With little more effort than is required to carry off the winning trophy.)
- John won the tennis match with no difficulty. He walked away with it.
- Our team walked away with first place.
2. Fig. to take or steal something.
- I think somebody just walked off with my purse!
- Somebody walked off with my daughter's bicycle.
... McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs,
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