Horse Phrases

Phrases

• A Day At The Races (Marx Brothers movie)
• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A burr under your saddle
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• A whole different animal (Frontier Airlines advertising slogan)
• America's Favorite Cowboy (Nickname of actor Gene Autry)
• Animal Crackers (Marx Brothers movie)
• Animal Farm (George Orwell book)
• Animal attraction
• Animal instinct
• Animal liberation
• Animal magic
• Animal magnetism
• Animal rights
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• As stubborn as a mule
• Back in the saddle
• Back the field
• Back the wrong horse
• Beast of the fields
• Best in show
• Big Donkey (Nickname of baseball players Billy Butler and Adam Dunn)
• Black Beauty (Anna Sewell book)
• Brown sugar (slang term for heroin)
• Champ at the bit
• 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
• Chrome pony
• Cowboy coffee
• Cowboy marketing
• Dark horse
• Dead ringer
• Desk jockey
• Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
• Dig A Pony (Beatles song)
• Doctor Johnny Fever (Nickname of disc jockey Johnny Caravella)
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Dog and pony show
• Don't change horses in midstream
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Donkey dick
• Donkey work
• Donkey's years (Cockney rhyming slang for ears)
• Drop the Dead Donkey (BBC comedy television series)
• Drugstore cowboy
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Each way bet
• Eat like a horse
• Flogging a dead horse
• Flutter on the horses
• 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)
• Gee up
• Get off your high horse
• Get the bit between your teeth
• Ginger up
• Heroin chic
• High steppin filly
• Hiyo Silver away (A catchphrase from The Lone Ranger)
• Hold your horses
• Home James and don't spare the horses
• Hors d'oeuvres
• 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
• Horses for courses
• Horses sweat, men perspire, women merely glow
• Horsing around
• Horsy set
• Hot tip
• Hung like a donkey
• Hung like a horse

• I could eat a horse
• If wishes were horses beggars would ride
• If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
• In foal
• In the saddle
• It is what it was (Ford Mustang advertising slogan)
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Jump off
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Lovely jubbly (A catchphrase from Only Fools and Horses)
• Mare's nest
• Midnight Cowboy (Dustin Hoffman / Jon Voight movie)
• Moscow mule
• Mount Etna (tourist attraction in Italy)
• Mount Fuji (tourist attraction in Japan)
• Mount Rushmore (tourist attraction in the USA)
• Mr. Cowboy (Nickname of Bob Lilly)
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Old chestnut
• On the flat
• One horse town
• One trick pony
• Only Fools and Horses
• Only fools and horses work
• Party animal
• Pin the tail on the donkey
• Piss like a race horse
• Point to point
• Political animal
• Pony and trap (Cockney rhyming slang for crap)
• Put the cart before the horse
• Rhinestone cowboy
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Rode hard and put away wet
• Rootin'est, tootin'est cowboy
• Run for your money
• Saddle tramp
• Shanks' pony
• Show pony
• Stalking horse
• Straight from the horse's mouth
• Talk the hind legs off a donkey
• Tall in the saddle
• Temple Mount (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Animal (Nickname of Edmundo)
• The Blues And Royals (Nickname of The Household Cavalry)
• The Cowboy State (Nickname of the US state of Wyoming)
• The Donkey (Nickname of Adam Dunn)
• The Fighting Cowboy (Nickname of James Tillis)
• The Flanders Mare (Nickname of Anne of Cleves)
• The Gun That Won The West (Nickname of the Colt revolver)
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Italian Stallion (Nickname of Andrea Bargnani)
• The Italian Stallion (Nickname of Sylvester Stallone)
• The Mount of Olives (tourist attraction in Israel)
• The Mountie always gets his man
• The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Gene Autry)
• The Singing Cowboy (Nickname of Roy Rogers)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The animal kingdom
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• The sport of kings
• They Shoot Horses Don't They? (Jane Fonda movie)
• This time next year we will be millionaires (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Time's winged chariot
• Under starter's orders
• Urban cowboy
• What the well-dressed man is wearing this year (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Why do only fools and horses work?
• Wild horses wouldn't drag that from me
• Win by a head
• Win by a neck
• Win by a nose
• Winner's circle
• With a hearty hiho Silver
• Wolfman Jack (Pseudonym of disk jockey Robert Weston Smith)
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You know it makes sense (A catchphrase from Only Fools And Horses)
• Zebra crossing

Related

• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Back the wrong horse
• Charley horse
• Choke a horse
• Dark horse
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Eat like a horse
• 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
• 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
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• 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
• Put the cart before the horse
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Stalking horse
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink