Runaway victory

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A runaway victory is a superior and at the same time easily achieved victory in a sports competition .

The term is mainly used in ball sports , in which the game result is measured in goals, baskets or points, "when a team ... scores unusually many more goals than the opponent".

origin

The name is of English origin and was first used in the Canterbury Tales of the 14th century with "Canterbury gallop", "Canterbury pace" or "Canterbury trot" as an expression for the pilgrims who rode to Canterbury on horseback to the shrine of Thomas Beckets to visit, and thereby the otherwise much more arduous pilgrimage simplified, but rode more leisurely than usual.

From this, the verb to canter , which was first documented in English in 1755 , developed, which was adopted for formulations such as to ride a horse at a canter in equestrian sport for the horse gait between canter and trot and later also in German with canter as a designation for easy canter or work canter asserted.

literature

  • Louis G. Heller, Alexander Humez, Malcah Dror: The private lives of English words. Taylor & Francis, 1984. ISBN 0-71020-006-4 .
  • Arthur Penrhyn Stanley: Historical memorials of Canterbury. Oxford University, 1865. Also available online.

Web links

Wiktionary: Kantersieg  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. Living Languages , Volume 31/32. VDI-Verlag, 1986. ISBN 3-18400-591-7 . P. 42.
  2. Louis G. Heller, Alexander Humez, Malcah Dror: The private lives of English words., P. 33 f.
  3. Merriam-Webster's 2002. ISBN 08-7779-809-5 , p. 181.
  4. ^ Arthur Penrhyn Stanley: Historical memorials of Canterbury. P. 210.