Horse Idioms

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1. When someone asks you to get off your high horse, they ask you to stop being arrogant.
2. When people horse around, they engage in rough play in good fun.
3. To look a gift horse in the mouth is to be ungrateful for what you have received.
4. When you are hoofing it, you are running really fast.
5. To hear something straight from the horse’s mouth is to hear it from the most authoritative source.
6. To make hay while the sun shines is to make the best use of the available opportunities
7. The expression I could eat a horse means that you are really hungry.
8. To beat a dead horse is to pursue a worthless activity.
9. To put the cart before the horse is to do things in the wrong order.
10. If something is a horse of a different color it is something totally different from what you were talking about.
11. To hold your horses is to be patient.
12. A one-horse town is a small, insignificant town.