Jockey 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
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Back the wrong horse
• Charley horse
• Choke a horse
• Dark horse
• Desk jockey
• Doctor Johnny Fever (Nickname of disc jockey Johnny Caravella)
• 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)
• Easy Rider (Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper movie)
• 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
• Jockeying for position
• Joy rider
• Look your best while you wear our least (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Low rider
• 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)
• Shock jock
• 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)
• The best seat in the house (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Under starter's orders
• What the well-dressed man is wearing this year (Jockey Shorts advertising slogan)
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Wolfman Jack (Pseudonym of disk jockey Robert Weston Smith)
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink