Re: What does this mean? (Horse)
Posted by Bruce Kahl on February
18, 2000 In Reply to: What does this mean? (Horse)
posted by Tyler Cameron on February 17, 2000
: Does anyone know what the phrase "And the Horse she rode in
on" mean? Does anyone know how it started?
I can tell you what the phrase means but I have no cluse as to
how/why/when it started!
The phrase is usually uttered angrily to someone who has just aggravated
you in some fashion and is preceded by another expression:
"Oh Yeah----well screw you too and the horse you rode in on!!"
Just a guess but many American phrases can be traced back to the
mid 1800s, a time of cowboys and railroads and this phrase, with
it's horse reference, may have originated back then.
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