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A Fistful Of Dollars ( Clint Eastwood movie )
A Man Called
Horse
( Richard Harris movie )
A bull and
cow
( Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument )
A camel is a
horse
designed by committee
A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a
horse
A man's got to do what a man's got to do
Alamo
City ( Nickname of San Antonio Texas )
All I know is what I read in the papers ( Will Rogers quotation )
All behind, like a cow's tail
All hat and no cattle
America's Favorite Cowboy ( Nickname of actor Gene Autry )
As rare as rocking
horse
droppings
At the end of a
gun
Babies love it (
Cow
& Gate Milk Food advertising slogan )
Back the wrong
horse
Bat Masterson ( Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson )
Bite the dust
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Blazing Saddles ( Mel Brooks movie )
Blood brothers
Brown Eyes Handsome Man ( Jerry Lee Lewis song )
Butch Cassidy ( Nickname of Robert Parker )
Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid ( Paul Newman / Robert Redford movie )
Cash
cow
Charley
horse
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Chew a
gun
Choke a
horse
Coogan's Bluff ( Clint Eastwood movie )
Cool Hand Luke ( Paul Newman movie )
Cow
juice
Cowboy coffee
Cowboy marketing
Crazy
Gun
Barney ( Nickname of Barney Fife ( Don Knotts ) )
Dark
horse
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Desperate Dan ( a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy )
Does a wooden
horse
have a hickory dick?
Don't amount to a hill of beans
Don't have a cow, man ( A catchphrase from The Simpsons )
Don't look a gift
horse
in the mouth
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Double denim ( denim jeans worn with a denim shirt or jacket )
Drugstore cowboy
Duncan the Wonder
Horse
( Nickname of TV news anchor Tom Brokaw )
Eat like a
horse
Flogging a dead
horse
For A Few Dollars More ( Clint Eastwood movie )
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
Give it the
gun
Go West young man
Gun
down
Gunfight
At The O K Corral ( Burt Lancaster / Kurt Douglas movie )
Happiness Is A Warm
Gun
( The Beatles song )
Have a
cow
Have gun, will travel ( A catchphrase from TV series )
Head them off at the pass
High Noon ( Gary Cooper movie )
Hiyo Silver away ( A catchphrase from The Lone
Ranger
)
Hold a
gun
to his head
Holy
cow
Holy
cow
Batman
Home, home on the range
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
How The West Was Won ( James Stewart movie )
How now brown cow?
Howdy
partner
Hung like a
horse
I Shot The
Sheriff
( Eric Clapton song )
I could eat a
horse
Is that a
gun
in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?
It's no use locking the stable door after the
horse
has bolted
Jump the
gun
Ke-mo sah-bee ( A catchphrase from Tonto In The Lone
Ranger
)
Kemo Sabe ( Nickname of The Lone
Ranger
( Clayton Moore ) )
Leave the gun, take the cannoli ( line from The Godfather )
Like a pig from a
gun
Love and marriage go together like a
horse
and carriage
Machine
Gun
Kelly ( Nickname of George Kelly )
Midnight Cowboy ( Dustin Hoffman / Jon Voight movie )
Mother Superior jumped the
gun
( Beatles song lyric )
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
North To Alaska ( John Wayne movie )
Oh Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam ( Brewster Higly song )
One
horse
town
Paint Your Wagon ( Clint Eastwood movie )
Piss like a race
horse
Put a
gun
to your head
Put the cart before the
horse
Red River ( John Wayne / Howard Hawks movie )
Rhinestone cowboy
Ride a cock
horse
to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady upon a white
horse
( line from nursery rhyme )
Ride off into the sunset
Rio Grande ( John Wayne movie )
Rootin'est, tootin'est cowboy
Round up
Sacred
cow
Saddle tramp
Say kids, what time is it? ( A catchphrase from
Howdy
Doody Show )
See how they run like pigs from a
gun
( The Beatles song lyric )
Shoot 'em up
Shootout at the OK Corral
Smoking
gun
Son of a
gun
Stalking
horse
Step out with a Stetson ( Stetson advertising slogan )
That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine ( Gene Autry song )
The
Alamo
( tourist attraction in the USA )
The Cowboy State ( Nickname of the US state of Wyoming )
The Fast
Gun
From Texas ( Nickname of Dan Troop ( John Russell ) )
The Fighting Cowboy ( Nickname of James Tillis )
The Good The Bad And The Ugly ( Clint Eastwood movie )
The Grand Ol Opry ( tourist attraction in Nashville USA )
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 King of the
Cowboys
( Nickname of Roy Rogers )
The Lone
Ranger
( Pseudonym of John Reid ( Clayton Moore ) )
The Magnificent Seven ( Steve McQueen / Yul Brynner / Charles Bronson movie )
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( James Stewart / John Wayne movie )
The Man With The Golden
Gun
( James Bond movie Roger Moore )
The Outlaw Josey Wales ( Clint Eastwood movie )
The Searchers ( John Wayne movie )
The Singing Cowboy ( Nickname of Gene Autry )
The Singing Cowboy ( Nickname of Roy Rogers )
The Sundance Kid ( Nickname of Harry Longbaugh )
The Wild
Horse
of the Osage ( Nickname of Pepper Martin )
The Wild West
The
cow
jumped over the moon ( line from nursery rhyme )
The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn ( line from nursery rhyme )
There's gold in them thar hills
They went that a'way
True Grit ( John Wayne movie )
Tumbling tumbleweed
Under the
gun
Urban cowboy
Wanted, dead or alive
What we have here is a failure to communicate ( line from Cool Hand Luke )
Where rocking
horse
people eat marshmallow pies ( Beatles song lyric )
White man speak with forked tongue
Who was that masked man? ( A catchphrase from The Lone
Ranger
)
Why buy the
cow
when the milk is free?
Wild Bill Hickock ( Nickname of James Hickock )
Wild and woolly
You can lead a
horse
to water but you can't make it drink