Common Expressions from The Horse World

[Inverness]

Ok, I’m bored. It is Friday night and I’m writing a voluminous Federal Update for a Monday morning meeting and I’m resenting it. Per usual, my mind is on horses, not work. So, I’m spending some time thinking up common expressions used by the public at large that derive from the horse world.

I offer up some obvious choices:

Horseplay;
Having someone “on a loose rein;”
Getting a “leg up” on the competition;
“Rode hard and put up wet;”
“Back in the saddle;”
“If wishes were horses;”
“unbridled” passion, etc.;
being “spurred on” to do something;

What others are out there?

[kissandtell]

Pas Petit Detail- The reason (or so i have been told, someone correct me if im wrong) that people say “have to pee like a racehorse” is because a) some racehorses are taught not to pee unless in their stall, and so have to go purty bad when they get there b) (which may relate to part a) if they win, when they are taken back to their stall they have to do to horsey evquivalent of peeing in a cup to test for drugs.

And yes i am a dork who has no life outside of horses (and yes, that is also why im posting @ 9 on a fri. night, cause i had to go ride my horse)

** Ashley and a big fannie named Annie **

[pinkhorse]

Since I’m a medical person -

healthy as a horse (don’t tell me that when my pony has a fever and a runny nose!)
horse pill (as in, “I couldn’t take the medicine you prescribed for me because it was as big as a horse pill”)

[Inverness]

Ok, I’m bored. It is Friday night and I’m writing a voluminous Federal Update for a Monday morning meeting and I’m resenting it. Per usual, my mind is on horses, not work. So, I’m spending some time thinking up common expressions used by the public at large that derive from the horse world.

I offer up some obvious choices:

Horseplay;
Having someone “on a loose rein;”
Getting a “leg up” on the competition;
“Rode hard and put up wet;”
“Back in the saddle;”
“If wishes were horses;”
“unbridled” passion, etc.;
being “spurred on” to do something;

What others are out there?

[Lord_Helpus]

Coming down the homestretch

Closing the barn door after the horse is out

Looking a gift horse in the mouth

To “curry favor” with someone

Get off your high horse

neck and neck

won by a nose, won by a head bob,

dead heat

[Seven]

so…

“eat’s like a horse”?

hmmmm – there must be others…

[Jo]

Ha ha, Pas Petit, I said that once around my dad, and he said, “what, with legs spread and your tail up in the air?” Ha ha ha. Ok, it was funny at the time.

[Hound_Dog_Diaries]

Pardon my frankness, but…

Having to “pee like a racehorse”, which I STILL don’t quite understand…LOL

[fernie_fox]

A horse,a horse,My kingdom for a horse.

Look before you leap.

Pride cometh before a fall.

A canter is the cure for all evil.

There is no secret so close as that between a horse and his rider.

[dublin]

some others…

you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink
iron horse (locomotive)
horse sense
to get on one’s high horse
to put the cart before the horse
hold your horses
don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
straight from the horse’s mouth
backing the wrong horse
horse of another color
one-horse town
dark horse

[jumpsalot]

Hold Your Horses

[nutmeg]

He’s the southbound end of a northbound horse

[ponyjocke]

i always say i have to pee like a racehorse, also i think when people who dont know much about horses pee and they actually see them pee like a cupla gallons theybthink of that

[dogchushu]

“Chomping at the bit”
“Tall in the saddle”

[hunterested]

how about switching horses in the middle of the stream…or is that camels???

[Cactuskate]

“It will never be seen on a trotting horse.”

Used when I would fuss about some uneven hemline or some spot on my clothing…

“The older I get, the better I used to be.”