Racehorse Phrases

Phrases

• 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
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Back in the saddle
• Back the wrong horse
• Boat race (Cockney rhyming slang for face)
• Born To Run (Bruce Springsteen song)
• Bun run
• Business is like a car, it will not run by itself except downhill
• Charley horse
• Choke a horse
• Crack the whip
• Cut and run
• Dark horse
• Does a wooden horse have a hickory dick?
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Don't try to run before you can walk
• Dry run
• Duncan the Wonder Horse (Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw)
• Easy Rider (Peter Fonda / Dennis Hopper movie)
• Eat and run
• Eat like a horse
• Egg and spoon race
• Fair crack of the whip
• 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
• Going going gone (A baseball expression by which an announcer describes a home run that is heading over the fence)
• Had a good run
• Hit and run
• Hold with the hare and run with the hounds
• Home run
• 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
• In the long run
• In the saddle
• In the short run
• Iron hoof (Cockney rhyming slang for poof)
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Joy rider
• Let your imagination run riot
• 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
• On the hoof
• On the run
• One horse town
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the race card

• Put the cart before the horse
• Race against the clock
• Race against time
• Race for the taste, the honey sweet taste!, the honey-nutty taste of Honey Nut Cheerios (Cheerios Cereals advertising slogan)
• Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
• Race to the bottom
• Rat race
• Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white horse (line from nursery rhyme)
• Run For Your Life (The Beatles song)
• Run Forrest, Run! (line from the movie Forrest Gump)
• Run a fever
• Run a tight ship
• Run along
• Run amuck
• Run for cover
• Run for the border (Taco advertising slogan)
• Run for the hills
• Run for your life
• Run for your money
• Run it up the flagpole and see who salutes
• Run its course
• Run like the wind
• Run of the Millsap (Nickname of Paul Millsap)
• Run of the mill
• Run off at the mouth
• Run off your feet
• Run out of gas
• Run out of steam
• Run out of town on a rail
• Run rabbit, run rabbit, run run run
• Run rings around
• Run the gauntlet
• Run the plates
• Run the risk
• Run to fat
• Run to ground
• Run to seed
• Run toward the sound of gunfire
• Run with the ball
• Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds
• Run yourself ragged
• Sack race
• Saddle tramp
• See how they run like pigs from a gun (The Beatles song lyric)
• Stalking horse
• Still waters run deep
• Sue grabbit and run
• Take the money and run
• Tall in the saddle
• The Amazing Race (US TV show)
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Master Race
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The course of true love never did run smooth
• The human race
• The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong (quotation from the Bible - Ecclesiastes
• This one will run and run
• Three blind mice, see how they run (line from nursery rhyme)
• Three line whip
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• Whip hand
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink
• You can run but you can't hide