in measured pace

[DaSwede]

If somebody walks "in measured pace"...? I'm guessing it means at an even pace, but does the expression also say something about whether that person walks slowly or quickly / whether the steps are long or short?

I want to use it in a text I'm writing, hence the meticulousness.

Thanks in advance, personal thanks later this week!

[Quizmonster]

In a slow, heavy, steady rhythm is the usual meaning...think policeman on his beat, for example.

[Grunty]

You have a long memory if you remember those, Quizmonster

[Quizmonster]

I can, indeed, still tremember the good old days when the bobby paced his beat and was free to clip you about the ear if you stepped out of line.
(I often wonder whether the do-gooders ever look around at today's youngsters and say: "We did this!")

[DaSwede]

'Ello, 'ello, 'ello,wot's all this, then, don't you have anything better to do with your time than to 'ang around the AB?

I understand what kind of gait you're referring to, Quizmonster. Follow up question: Think of a giant, talking very long steps maybe not from his own point of view, but certainly from ours, putting a lot of miles behind him even though he's not walking very quickly. An effective gait, but not with the bobby-on-the-beat-poise - could I use the phrase to describe somebody walking like that, in your opinion? (I've fixed myself on that phrase, for metrical reasons.)

Signing off soon but will as you know return. Thanks!

[Quizmonster]

Yes, Da, the 'giant' scenario works equally well with the phrase.

[DaSwede]

Thanks Monster, you're a rock. (I suspect that's not how to say it in English...? ...but in Swedish it means somebody who instils a sense of security by always being there.)

[Quizmonster]

That's extremely kind of you and - whilst I certainly wouldn't myself claim to be a 'rock - we do use the word in exactly the way you describe. Princess Diana, for example, famously described her butler, Burrell, as her 'rock' during her times of trial.