Horse Idioms and Sayings
Horse Idioms and Sayings
Horse Idioms we all hear and say....in one place.
Over time I have gathered a list of horse idioms I've read or heard people use. So, I keep adding to list as I come across them.
If you know of any others that aren't on the list below please email me at Charlie@HorseTrainingResources.com and be sure to put "horse idiom" in the subject line so I don't miss it. Thanks!
NOTE: Be sure to contact our website to see the
updated list of Horse Idioms and Sayings
My
list is below.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it
drink.
Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Straight from the horse's mouth.
A charlie horse
A horse of another different color
Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest
A one-horse race
A Trojan horse
I could eat a horse
He eats like a horse
Don't back the wrong horse
Don't beat a dead horse
Don't change horses in midstream
Don't put the cart before the horse
Don't spare the horses
For want of a nail the shoe is lost,
for want of a shoe the horse is lost,
for want of a horse the rider is lost.
Get off your high horse
Get it straight from the horse's mouth
Hold your horses!
Stop horsing around
That's a horse of another color
A dark horse
Horse sense
Horses for courses
If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse
This is a one-horse town
Play the ponies
Put a horse out to pasture
Don't put the cart before the horse
Shut the stable door after the horse has bolted
He's strong as a horse
Wild horses couldn't drag him away
That's horseplay
Get on one's hobby horse
Here's some reader submissions:
One white hoof, buy him,
two white hooves, try him,
three white hooves, pass him by,
four white hooves, feed him to the
buzzards.
(from a John Wayne movie, but still an old time
favorite)
The original saying before the John Wayne movie:
One white foot shy
Two white feet try
Three white feet deny
Four white feet buy.Brenda says: "I am
65 years old and when I was coming up in the horse world the above was
the
gospel according to the old time traders and they practiced it. I
have seen many a dang good horse passed up by some of them because he
had three stockings. Strange but true"
Never talk bad about a man's horse,
dog, or wife, in that order.
(Words of wisdom I picked
up
as a boy from an old rancher)
Fun reading!
If you know of any more, please email me at: Charlie@HorseTrainingResources.com
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Thanks,
Charlie
NOTE: Be sure to contact our website to see the
updated list of Horse
Idioms
