to walk a dog
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1.0
- phrasal verb
- /wɔk ə dɔg/
:
sacar a pasear un perro
- Can you help me walk a dog during my lunch break?
- a man walking a dog
I'm like, why is your confidence tied to what you look like when you are walking a dog?
- I'm like, why is your confidence tied to what you look like when you are walking a dog?
- But then I go through a thought process, which maybe isn't completely healthy, which is they're not aware of how wonderful it is just to walk a dog, but I'm aware of it.
- It's a kind of thing that we can do by standing big and proud and walking a dog down.
Examples
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On weekends, I love to walk a dog along the beach.
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Her next customer was a man walking a dog.
Fiction book (1999) -
I just walked a dog.
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Bruno, do you want to walk a dog with me after school?
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The healthy way to walk a dog is to let the dog walk with you, not pulling you, not running erratically to smell things on the way, and not jumping on others.
Blog text (29) -
Neighborhood residents said the victims were out last night walking a dog when a tree was uprooted from the sidewalk and trapped the pair beneath its weight.
Blog text (10) -
Richard runs past an old man walking a dog, past a crowd of women with covered heads coming out of San Maria Formosa, past groupings of tourists laughing and waving guidebooks and cameras.
Fiction book (1991) -
Every morning, I take a break to walk a dog in the park.
Synonyms
172
1.0
To lead an animal on foot for exercise or control
92
1.2
A slow easy walk taken for pleasure
26
1.1
To take a dog outside on a leash for exercise
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to take a dog outdoors for exercise' is directly and transparently derived from combining walk (to lead or exercise by walking) with dog (a domesticated canine); the indefinite article 'a' is semantically neutral. This verb+object composition is common across languages and follows standard English patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words would readily understand it.
Etymology
Walk a dog comes from the simple picture of a person holding a leash and moving along with a dog. Because owners did this to give the dog exercise and keep it under control, the phrase now means 'to take a dog outside to exercise'.