Stirrup Phrases

Phrases

• A Man Called Horse (Richard Harris movie)
• A burr under your saddle
• A camel is a horse designed by committee
• A fool and his money are soon parted
• A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse
• A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client
• Act the fool
• April fool
• As rare as rocking horse droppings
• Back in the saddle
• Back the wrong horse
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• Charley horse
• Choke a horse
• Crazy fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Dark horse
• 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)
• Eat like a horse
• Flogging a dead horse
• Fool around
• Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
• Fool's errand
• Fool's gold (a brassy yellow mineral that the inexperienced prospector may mistake for gold)
• Fool's paradise
• 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
• Free rein
• 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
• I pity the fool (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• In the saddle
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
• Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage
• Make a complete fool of yourself
• Make a fool of yourself
• More fool you
• My friend, Joe Holmes, is now a horse (Arrow Shirts advertising slogan)
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Nobody's fool
• One horse town
• Piss like a race horse
• Play the fool
• Played for a fool
• 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)
• Saddle tramp
• Shut up, fool. (A catchphrase from The A-Team)
• Stalking horse
• Tall in the saddle
• The Fool On The Hill (The Beatles song)
• The Horse Whisperer (Robert Redford movie)
• The Iron Horse (Nickname of Lou Gehrig)
• The Wild Horse of the Osage (Nickname of Pepper Martin)
• The Wisest Fool In Christendom (Nickname of King James I)
• There's no fool like an old fool
• Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies (Beatles song lyric)
• You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink