Cavalry Phrases

Phrases

• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• An army marches on its stomach
• An army of one (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Army Dreamers (Kate Bush song)
• Army strawberries (military slang term for prunes)
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Back the wrong horse
• Barmy army
• Be all that you can be (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Be all you can be (US Army advertising slogan)
• Be the best (British Army advertising slogan)
• Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
• Charley horse
• Choke a horse
• Dad's Army (BBC comedy television series)
• Dark horse
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't panic (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• Drummed out of the army
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Eat like a horse
• Field Marshall (the highest rank in the British Army)
• Flogging a dead horse
• For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the man was lost
• Gee gee (childish term for a horse)
• Get off your high horse
• Go for a soldier (Enlist in the army)
• Heart to God, hand to man (The Salvation Army advertising slogan)
• Horse Feathers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Horse and cart (Cockney rhyming slang for fart)
• Horse around
• Horse feathers
• Horse laugh
• Horse of a different colour
• Horse play
• Horse sense

• Horse whisperer
• Horse's ass
• Horse's douffers
• Hung like a horse
• I could eat a horse
• I want YOU for the US Army (World War I and World War II advertising slogan)
• In the Army, the edge (Australian Army advertising slogan)
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Join the professionals (British Army advertising slogan)
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• One horse town
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the old soldier
• Put the cart before the horse
• Red Army Fraction (German left wing terrorist group also call Red Army Faction)
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Send a salami to your boy in the army
• Soldier of fortune
• Soldier on
• Some of our best men are women (United States Army advertising slogan)
• Stalking horse
• The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• The Blues And Royals (Nickname of The Household Cavalry)
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Sally Army (Nickname of the Salvation Army)
• The Tartan Army
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The army national guard, you can (US Army National Guard advertising slogan)
• The forgotten army
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carre book)
• War baby (someone born during the war - especially the illegitimate child of a soldier)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• You and whose army?
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You stupid boy! (A catchphrase from Dad's Army)
• You're in the army now