Ways of walking
Walking through life
Walking collocations are often used metaphorically. Notice the examples in this text.
Jack always did very well at school. He walked1 every exam he ever went in for. His teachers
used to call him a walking encyclopaedia. It was only when he left school that he began
to run into problems. He couldn’t decide what job to choose. Many different walks of life
appealed to him. He didn’t want to rush headlong into2 something that he would later
regret. Eventually he decided he most wanted to become a writer. The next day he took
his first faltering steps3 at writing a novel. After only a month or two he had made great
strides4 and was ready to take his book to a publishing house. It was here that he ran up
against some opposition. He seemed to get oft on the wrong foot5 with the publishers,
who didn’t like him and turned his book down. They’re sorry now! A second publisher
accepted his novel and it’s already a best-seller world-wide.
1 passed very easily (informal)
2 start doing something too quickly
3 not very confident steps. You can also talk about careful/tentative steps when someone is
doing something which they are not confident about.
4 made great progress
5 make a bad start to a relationship
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