Definition of horse in English:

horse

noun hɔːshɔrs

1A large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.
马
Equus caballus, family Equidae (the horse family), descended from the wild Przewalski's horse. The horse family also includes the asses and zebras
Example sentencesExamples
- Insurance companies offered policies to cover cattle, poultry, sheep, goats, horses, elephants, dogs, ducks and fishes.
- Her father had stocked an entire stable with sleek, powerful racing horses, and she had adored them all equally.
- Horses were first used to pull chariots, and it was not until horses large enough to carry a man had been bred, broken, and trained that the cavalryman proper made his appearance.
- Fiona explained that riding school ponies and horses occasionally get lazy and bored with the same daily routine.
- But still, it's a lot better than most of what's out there, and as a fan of horses and horse racing, I enjoyed it a lot.
- In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes.
- Cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and other large farm animals seem to fall well outside the paradigm of urban farming.
- Domestic donkeys interact well with other livestock animals such as horses, cows, goats, sheep, and llamas.
- Both horses carried bulging saddlebags packed with supplies.
- A big reason is that rhinos, unlike horses, cannot be domesticated.
- His error was so glaring that Gagan should have noticed right away and pulled up his horse, as the rules of racing dictate.
- The mowing machine for the barley and oats was pulled by two horses and carried two people - the blades would be flying when it was in use.
- The Kazakh village is one of two sites competing for the honor of being the first place where humans are thought to have domesticated horses.
- Now domesticated, horses occur throughout the world and in feral populations in some areas.
- At other times, seeds were harrowed in by horses pulling brush or else by sheep trampling the ground.
- Some good stock, including horses, cattle, sheep and pigs were on exhibition.
- He cared for his horse, choosing only the finest horses to carry him for he knew his life depended on having a well-cared for mount.
- The Miller Farm no longer raises livestock, except for a few pet horses, goats and sheep.
- Racing began about three minutes after man domesticated the horse.
- A horse pulling a cart carrying racegoers was struck by lightning and died and a passenger was killed.
Synonyms
mount, charger, yearling
cob, draught horse, carthorse, packhorse, racehorse
pony, foal, colt, stallion, gelding, mare, filly
nag, hack
North American bronco
Australian/New Zealand moke, yarraman
archaic steed, jade
children's word gee-gee
1. 1.1 An adult male horse; a stallion or gelding.
  成年公马；种马；阉割过的马
  Example sentencesExamples
  The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare.
  I now have more mares than male horses though among the top 10 I own three of them are males.
2. 1.2 A wild mammal of the horse family.
  野生的马科动物
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wild horses roam the roads and in the jungle you can find giant moths apparently the inspiration for Mothra, Godzilla's legendary foe.
  The horse family - Equiidae - was an especial success story during the Neogene.
  Wild horses can be tamed, but Finch said it takes someone who is knowledgeable and experienced.
  Wild horses in the New Forest get along perfectly fine, wandering around outdoors, free and naked and just getting more hairy in winter.
  This grandly titled traditional animation from DreamWorks centres on an untamed horse in the old Wild West which is captured by the army and harshly broken in to join the cavalry.
  On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars.
  Paintings of horses - and other wild animals of ice age Europe such as lions and mammoths - long predate human portraiture.
  Wild horses and cattle are also entering the park from the Hermannsburg Aboriginal land.
3. 1.3treated as singular or plural Cavalry.
  骑兵
  forty horse and sixty foot
  40名骑兵和60名步兵。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The next level down was the commander of the fire unit - the horse artillery troop or foot artillery company - equivalent to modern batteries.
  Before the enemy had time to turn to see what was happening, mace, lance, and horse slammed right into them.
  The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing.
  He fought alongside the duke at the naval battles off Lowestoft in 1665 and at Sole Bay in 1672 and, though a catholic, was made colonel of a regiment of horse.
  Synonyms
  mounted troops, cavalrymen, horse soldiers, troopers
2A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.
（尤指锯木架）支架
Synonyms
framework, rack, holder, stand, base, support, mounting, mount, platform, prop, rest, chock, plinth, bottom, trivet, bracket, frame, subframe, structure, substructure, chassis
1. 2.1Nautical A horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship.
  〔航海〕（帆船上起支撑作用的）横杠（或横杆、绳索等）
2. 2.2
  short for vaulting horse
  Example sentencesExamples
  R. Mikaelyan was first among the Soviet gymnasts who started with the long horse.
  He won the silver medal on the long horse and a special prize for an original vault.
  And the wall bars and horses which have characterised school gym halls for hundreds of years will be replaced by treadmills and electronic recumbent bikes.
  Attempting a vault, her right foot missed the springboard and she crashed headfirst at full speed into the horse.
  Meanwhile, Gary or Craig, or whatever his name was from Steps, possibly became the first person to be throw by a gymnasium horse.
  A year later Olga won her first award at the national title meet - a gold medal in the horse vault.
3informal A unit of horsepower.
〈非正式〉马力
a 63-horse engine
4informal mass noun Heroin.
〈非正式〉海洛因
Example sentencesExamples
- Easy, add someone doing bong hits or horse in the rectum and you've got instant mise en scène.
- Instead of a bunch of layabouts smoking glue and cracking charlie's horse with LSD, we could have good, fit criminals with discipline and firearms skills.
- He remembers his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.
- For the great horse called heroin will take you to hell.
5Mining
An obstruction in a vein.
〔矿〕夹块，夹石，马脊岭

verb hɔːshɔrs

with object Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses.
给（人或车辆）提供马
six men, horsed, masked, and armed
Example sentencesExamples
- After 1812 shortage of horses meant that a five-squadron French dragoon regiment might go to war with three squadrons horsed and two on foot.
- North and South learned early on that horsed formations could not charge ranks of infantry armed with the new rifled musket, and they relegated cavalry to scouting and raiding roles.
- High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache.
- I'm uncertain whether the Millennium Dome is a smart thing to have on one's CV, but I see it as a stepping stone to Ensign Ewart, my fully horsed spectacular, soon to be lavishly mounted at Covent Garden.
- For firms horsing their own vehicles, the cost of the yard would be a joint cost and cannot be divided between horses and vehicles.
- In previous wars, horsed cavalry had performed such a role, but cavalry were generally of little use in the trenches of the Western Front.
- It didn't sound like the dozen horsed riders that she'd expected; it sounded like half of that.

Phrases

don't change horses in midstream

proverb Choose a sensible moment to change your mind.
〈谚〉不要中流换马；不要在紧急关头改变策略
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘You don't change horses in midstream,’ he says.

flog a dead horse

Waste energy on a lost cause or unalterable situation.

from the horse's mouth

(of information) from the person directly concerned or another authoritative source.
（消息）直接来自有关人士的，来自权威人士的
Example sentencesExamples
- In case you've been wondering what Pamela Anderson's been up to lately, here's the news straight from the horse's mouth.
- Web coverage extends this further and offers the opportunity of getting information ‘straight from the horse's mouth.’
- Time was, if you wanted accurate information it was best to get it from the horse's mouth.
- Those were the days when any scribe could get any information he needed from the horse's mouth.
- I thought we needed to hear it straight from the horse's mouth - we are already getting analysis and summaries.
- Pop scientists Sagan and Asimov wrote about a great many things they lacked professional expertise in, yet the facts always seemed to come straight from the horse's mouth.
- Here again, no information from the horse's mouth, only from ‘widespread reports across the Indian media‘.
- An unsurprising reaction, of course, but I figured that since I had something straight from the horse's mouth, I'd pass it along.
- This is not mere speculation; we have it from the horse's mouth.
- This is a positive thing; it's good for students at all levels to get information straight from the horse's mouth, not only for accuracy but also for enthusiasm and authenticity.
Synonyms
reliable, dependable, trustworthy, good, sound, authentic, valid, well founded, attested, certified, verifiable

horses for courses

proverb Different people are suited to different things.
〈英谚〉马各有赛场，人各有所长
Example sentencesExamples
- However, it is horses for courses and we can't say for sure that every boy will play all their matches for the club team.
- Instead of horses for courses, they're going for another outsider.
- My answer to that question is that sometimes you have to make a rugby decision based on a horses for courses policy, and this is such an occasion.
- I think it's very much horses for courses - it's about getting a good balance between public and private sector.
- Always a believer in horses for courses - since the advent of the squad system at least - the Scotland coach is likely to chop and twiddle and tinker over the five championship games.
- However, coach Clive Woodward chose horses for courses and Tindall started the game and typified England's thirst for victory with some big hits.
- They are cheap and safe and have gained NHS approval, so it's horses for courses on this one.
- In fact, it is a case of horses for courses but whatever you do, please give your ferry route some careful consideration.
- Sometimes it's a matter of being in the right place at the right time or what you might call horses for courses.
- So I'm not interested in politics, it's horses for courses.

to horse

(as a command) mount your horses!
（作为命令）上马！
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Well, to horse then,’ said Hal after a uncomfortable pause, ‘And I had been hoping for a good night's rest, too.’
- Pray forgive my haste, but I must to horse before the coming of the rosy-fingered dawn.

you can lead (or take) a horse to water but you can't make him drink

proverb You can give someone an opportunity, but you can't force them to take it.
〈谚〉牵马到水边易，逼马饮水难（你可以给人机会，但你不能逼他们去做）
Example sentencesExamples
- As the saying goes that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, so the same goes with standards education.
- To paraphrase Keynes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
- But the old, old cliché says you can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink, well we believe that we can make him thirsty.
- It's really hard - you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink it.

Phrasal Verbs

horse around (or about)

Fool about.
〈非正式〉捣蛋，鬼混胡闹
they were talking silly and horsing around
Example sentencesExamples
- A powerful man tilting the scales at well over 200 pounds and dressed in full gear jumping on another man is not horsing around on a foam mat.
- I did nothing but read the paper, watch TV and generally horse around.
- The actors laze about and horse around with each other until the time for their scenes.
- I enjoyed horsing around with a new person in the group, talking, arguing, eating, drinking, running around in breaks to see who can run faster.
- It connotes eating, drinking, dancing, joking, laughing, and horsing around.
- We did the usual horsing around, inventing handshakes and dumb dances and songs, but I really liked Robert Tsai who played Lawrence, the concert pianist, just because his vast knowledge of classical music was astonishing to me.
- Bryson Donaldson, 12, was horsing around at his Muskogee, Oklahoma, school one morning last fall, mimicking the cops-and-robbers scenario that is as American as apple pie and Al Pacino.
- We arrived at the skate park laughing and continued to horse around.
- It started off basically as a way to just horse around.
- From moments of calm and almost stillness, there is a wonderful male glee in horsing around, pushing, shoving, improvising with arms, hands, positions and timing.
- Entitled, ‘We're a horsing around - it's a catastrophe ’, they were both dressed up as cats and had bandages around themselves and the pony.
- I remember once, I was horsing around with her - she was trying to run me over with her chair and I was getting in close and leaping out of the way.
- You know that game where I chase you around and we horse around on the floor?
- There will be an hour of horsing around to Robbie Williams, followed by a Bob the Builder or Barbie cake.
- Mr Annan gave him a pass, but told him not to horse around in the hall and to remember to wash his hands.
- Peak photographer Josh Devins and I horsed around in our combat fatigues and chatted with the other reporters.
- I say to them, ‘my husband I think is horsing around.'
- The girls were helping themselves to some cookies when they saw some of them wandering in, laughing and horsing around after their excursion.
- More young people are in school who would rather be elsewhere, and they tend to horse around.
- You'd like to think she did, maybe while she was horsing around with Diego in the early days, or when she was painting in her eyebrows on those self-portraits.
- There will be plenty of horsing about going on at a big top near the Trafford Centre this week.
- Then we got to our transfer spot and as they waited mom and daughters fooled around, pulling at one another and horsing around.
- Matthew House's first salon, in Lidget, Oakworth, includes an old-fashioned barber's chair, as well as an imported children's chair to horse around in.
- This didn't leave much time for the snowball fights and horsing around my friends engaged in.
Synonyms
fool about, fool around, play the fool, act foolishly, act the clown, act the fool, play about, play around, clown about, clown around, monkey about, monkey around, play tricks, indulge in horseplay, engage in high jinks

Derivatives

horse-like

adjective

The Malayan tapir is a good climber, scaling steep slopes with relative ease, and when alarmed gallops off with surprising speed on its horse-like hooves.
Example sentencesExamples
- Moreover, a terracotta horse-like figurine with a saddle on its back has been found in Balu in the Harappan urban phase.
- A reptilian head was accompanied by a horse-like body.
- That the fossil record documents a large number of stable horse-like species has no relevance to the question of whether the horse fossils we have provide strong evidence of common descent.
- The centaur had her four cockatrices perched on the spine of her horse-like half, and her cat was at her side.

Origin

Old English hors, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ros and German Ross.

An ancient word that has relatives in most northern European languages. The root may also be the source of Latin currere ‘to run’ (see cursor). Horse racing has given numerous expressions to the language. The saying horses for courses is from the idea that each racehorse is suited to one particular racecourse and will do better on that than on any other. A. E. T. Watson's The Turf in 1891 was the first to record this observation, which he describes as ‘a familiar phrase on the turf’. The underlying idea of straight from the horse's mouth is that the best way to get racing tips is to ask a horse directly. One of the first examples comes from a 1913 edition of the Syracuse Herald: ‘Lionel hesitated, then went on quickly. “I got a tip yesterday, and if it wasn't straight from the horse's mouth it was jolly well the next thing to it.”’ People often say something like, ‘Oh, wild horses wouldn't…’, meaning that nothing could persuade them to do that particular thing, not realizing the horrific reference—it comes from the old custom of executing criminals by tying each of the four limbs to four horses and then urging the horses on, tearing the person into four pieces. To flog a dead horse is to waste energy on a lost cause or a situation that cannot be altered. Dead horse used to be workmen's slang for work that was charged for before it was done: to work or work for a dead horse was to do work that you had already been paid for.
An early form of the proverb you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink was ‘They can but bringe horse to the water brinke, But horse may choose whether that horse will drinke’ (1602). The horse chestnut was formerly said to be a remedy for chest diseases in horses, and its name is a translation of Latin Castanea equina. In horsefly (Late Middle English), horseradish (late 16th century), and similar terms horse implies ‘large of its kind’. See also dark, easel, equestrian, gift

Rhymes

coarse, corse, course, divorce, endorse (US indorse), enforce, force, gorse, hoarse, morse, Norse, perforce, reinforce, sauce, source, torse

Definition of horse in US English:

horse

nounhɔrshôrs

1A large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads.
马
Equus caballus, family Equidae (the horse family), descended from the wild Przewalski's horse. The horse family also includes the asses and zebras
Example sentencesExamples
- The mowing machine for the barley and oats was pulled by two horses and carried two people - the blades would be flying when it was in use.
- At other times, seeds were harrowed in by horses pulling brush or else by sheep trampling the ground.
- In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes.
- Some good stock, including horses, cattle, sheep and pigs were on exhibition.
- His error was so glaring that Gagan should have noticed right away and pulled up his horse, as the rules of racing dictate.
- Horses were first used to pull chariots, and it was not until horses large enough to carry a man had been bred, broken, and trained that the cavalryman proper made his appearance.
- He cared for his horse, choosing only the finest horses to carry him for he knew his life depended on having a well-cared for mount.
- Both horses carried bulging saddlebags packed with supplies.
- Cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and other large farm animals seem to fall well outside the paradigm of urban farming.
- The Miller Farm no longer raises livestock, except for a few pet horses, goats and sheep.
- A big reason is that rhinos, unlike horses, cannot be domesticated.
- But still, it's a lot better than most of what's out there, and as a fan of horses and horse racing, I enjoyed it a lot.
- Now domesticated, horses occur throughout the world and in feral populations in some areas.
- Domestic donkeys interact well with other livestock animals such as horses, cows, goats, sheep, and llamas.
- The Kazakh village is one of two sites competing for the honor of being the first place where humans are thought to have domesticated horses.
- Insurance companies offered policies to cover cattle, poultry, sheep, goats, horses, elephants, dogs, ducks and fishes.
- Her father had stocked an entire stable with sleek, powerful racing horses, and she had adored them all equally.
- Fiona explained that riding school ponies and horses occasionally get lazy and bored with the same daily routine.
- A horse pulling a cart carrying racegoers was struck by lightning and died and a passenger was killed.
- Racing began about three minutes after man domesticated the horse.
Synonyms
mount, charger, yearling
1. 1.1 An adult male horse; a stallion or gelding.
  成年公马；种马；阉割过的马
  Example sentencesExamples
  I now have more mares than male horses though among the top 10 I own three of them are males.
  The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare.
2. 1.2 A wild mammal of the horse family.
  野生的马科动物
  Example sentencesExamples
  On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars.
  Paintings of horses - and other wild animals of ice age Europe such as lions and mammoths - long predate human portraiture.
  Wild horses can be tamed, but Finch said it takes someone who is knowledgeable and experienced.
  Wild horses roam the roads and in the jungle you can find giant moths apparently the inspiration for Mothra, Godzilla's legendary foe.
  Wild horses and cattle are also entering the park from the Hermannsburg Aboriginal land.
  Wild horses in the New Forest get along perfectly fine, wandering around outdoors, free and naked and just getting more hairy in winter.
  This grandly titled traditional animation from DreamWorks centres on an untamed horse in the old Wild West which is captured by the army and harshly broken in to join the cavalry.
  The horse family - Equiidae - was an especial success story during the Neogene.
3. 1.3treated as singular or plural Cavalry.
  骑兵
  forty horse and sixty foot
  40名骑兵和60名步兵。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Before the enemy had time to turn to see what was happening, mace, lance, and horse slammed right into them.
  The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing.
  The next level down was the commander of the fire unit - the horse artillery troop or foot artillery company - equivalent to modern batteries.
  He fought alongside the duke at the naval battles off Lowestoft in 1665 and at Sole Bay in 1672 and, though a catholic, was made colonel of a regiment of horse.
  Synonyms
  mounted troops, cavalrymen, horse soldiers, troopers
2A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse.
（尤指锯木架）支架
Synonyms
framework, rack, holder, stand, base, support, mounting, mount, platform, prop, rest, chock, plinth, bottom, trivet, bracket, frame, subframe, structure, substructure, chassis
1. 2.1Nautical A horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship for supporting something.
  〔航海〕（帆船上起支撑作用的）横杠（或横杆、绳索等）
2. 2.2
  short for pommel horse or vaulting horse
  Example sentencesExamples
  Meanwhile, Gary or Craig, or whatever his name was from Steps, possibly became the first person to be throw by a gymnasium horse.
  And the wall bars and horses which have characterised school gym halls for hundreds of years will be replaced by treadmills and electronic recumbent bikes.
  A year later Olga won her first award at the national title meet - a gold medal in the horse vault.
  Attempting a vault, her right foot missed the springboard and she crashed headfirst at full speed into the horse.
  He won the silver medal on the long horse and a special prize for an original vault.
  R. Mikaelyan was first among the Soviet gymnasts who started with the long horse.
3informal A unit of horsepower.
〈非正式〉马力
the huge 63-horse 701-cc engine
巨大的63马力701立方厘米发动机。
4informal Heroin.
〈非正式〉海洛因
Example sentencesExamples
- Instead of a bunch of layabouts smoking glue and cracking charlie's horse with LSD, we could have good, fit criminals with discipline and firearms skills.
- Easy, add someone doing bong hits or horse in the rectum and you've got instant mise en scène.
- For the great horse called heroin will take you to hell.
- He remembers his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse.
5Mining
An obstruction in a vein.
〔矿〕夹块，夹石，马脊岭

verbhɔrshôrs

[with object]usually be horsed

Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses.
给（人或车辆）提供马
Example sentencesExamples
- High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache.
- After 1812 shortage of horses meant that a five-squadron French dragoon regiment might go to war with three squadrons horsed and two on foot.
- For firms horsing their own vehicles, the cost of the yard would be a joint cost and cannot be divided between horses and vehicles.
- I'm uncertain whether the Millennium Dome is a smart thing to have on one's CV, but I see it as a stepping stone to Ensign Ewart, my fully horsed spectacular, soon to be lavishly mounted at Covent Garden.
- In previous wars, horsed cavalry had performed such a role, but cavalry were generally of little use in the trenches of the Western Front.
- North and South learned early on that horsed formations could not charge ranks of infantry armed with the new rifled musket, and they relegated cavalry to scouting and raiding roles.
- It didn't sound like the dozen horsed riders that she'd expected; it sounded like half of that.

Phrases

don't change horses in midstream

proverb Choose a sensible moment to change your mind.
〈谚〉不要中流换马；不要在紧急关头改变策略
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘You don't change horses in midstream,’ he says.

beat a dead horse

Waste energy on a lost cause or unalterable situation.

frighten the horses

usually with negativeDo something likely to cause public outrage or offense.
David's views would not have frightened the horses
Example sentencesExamples
- Has been stealthily been doing his bit to redistribute wealth without frightening the horses (and the newspapers).
- Although the minimum wage was introduced at a level calculated not to frighten the horses, its potential ratcheting up is a ticking time-bomb in the engine room of the economy.
- David's views, which surely should have been known, would not have frightened the horses.
- We don't want him frightening the horses of middle England when the Tories finally have some momentum.
- Labour is still afraid, or unwilling, to say exactly what it is doing, so it uses euphemisms which won't frighten the horses.
- Even on the fashion front, although the dresses were classically glamorous, not one would have frightened the horses.
- In order to stay in office, such a government would probably do very little to frighten the horses.
- The number one priority in TV comedy today is ' don't frighten the horses ', and it's probably number two and three as well.
- The Government does not want to frighten the horses.
- Who cares what the Bishop of Reading gets up to in his spare time; provided he doesn't do it in the street and frighten the horses?

from the horse's mouth

(of information) from the person directly concerned or another authoritative source.
（消息）直接来自有关人士的，来自权威人士的
Example sentencesExamples
- Time was, if you wanted accurate information it was best to get it from the horse's mouth.
- Pop scientists Sagan and Asimov wrote about a great many things they lacked professional expertise in, yet the facts always seemed to come straight from the horse's mouth.
- This is not mere speculation; we have it from the horse's mouth.
- Web coverage extends this further and offers the opportunity of getting information ‘straight from the horse's mouth.’
- I thought we needed to hear it straight from the horse's mouth - we are already getting analysis and summaries.
- In case you've been wondering what Pamela Anderson's been up to lately, here's the news straight from the horse's mouth.
- This is a positive thing; it's good for students at all levels to get information straight from the horse's mouth, not only for accuracy but also for enthusiasm and authenticity.
- Those were the days when any scribe could get any information he needed from the horse's mouth.
- An unsurprising reaction, of course, but I figured that since I had something straight from the horse's mouth, I'd pass it along.
- Here again, no information from the horse's mouth, only from ‘widespread reports across the Indian media‘.
Synonyms
reliable, dependable, trustworthy, good, sound, authentic, valid, well founded, attested, certified, verifiable

horses for courses

proverb Different people are suited to different things or situations.
〈英谚〉马各有赛场，人各有所长
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes it's a matter of being in the right place at the right time or what you might call horses for courses.
- In fact, it is a case of horses for courses but whatever you do, please give your ferry route some careful consideration.
- Instead of horses for courses, they're going for another outsider.
- So I'm not interested in politics, it's horses for courses.
- However, coach Clive Woodward chose horses for courses and Tindall started the game and typified England's thirst for victory with some big hits.
- They are cheap and safe and have gained NHS approval, so it's horses for courses on this one.
- I think it's very much horses for courses - it's about getting a good balance between public and private sector.
- Always a believer in horses for courses - since the advent of the squad system at least - the Scotland coach is likely to chop and twiddle and tinker over the five championship games.
- However, it is horses for courses and we can't say for sure that every boy will play all their matches for the club team.
- My answer to that question is that sometimes you have to make a rugby decision based on a horses for courses policy, and this is such an occasion.

to horse

(as a command) mount your horses!
（作为命令）上马！
Example sentencesExamples
- ‘Well, to horse then,’ said Hal after a uncomfortable pause, ‘And I had been hoping for a good night's rest, too.’
- Pray forgive my haste, but I must to horse before the coming of the rosy-fingered dawn.

you can lead (or take) a horse to water but you can't make him drink

proverb You can give someone an opportunity, but you can't force them to take it.
〈谚〉牵马到水边易，逼马饮水难（你可以给人机会，但你不能逼他们去做）
Example sentencesExamples
- But the old, old cliché says you can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink, well we believe that we can make him thirsty.
- It's really hard - you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink it.
- To paraphrase Keynes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
- As the saying goes that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, so the same goes with standards education.

Phrasal Verbs

horse around (or about)

Fool around.
〈非正式〉捣蛋，鬼混胡闹
schoolkids laughing and horsing around
Example sentencesExamples
- Mr Annan gave him a pass, but told him not to horse around in the hall and to remember to wash his hands.
- I remember once, I was horsing around with her - she was trying to run me over with her chair and I was getting in close and leaping out of the way.
- It connotes eating, drinking, dancing, joking, laughing, and horsing around.
- Peak photographer Josh Devins and I horsed around in our combat fatigues and chatted with the other reporters.
- From moments of calm and almost stillness, there is a wonderful male glee in horsing around, pushing, shoving, improvising with arms, hands, positions and timing.
- The actors laze about and horse around with each other until the time for their scenes.
- Entitled, ‘We're a horsing around - it's a catastrophe ’, they were both dressed up as cats and had bandages around themselves and the pony.
- We did the usual horsing around, inventing handshakes and dumb dances and songs, but I really liked Robert Tsai who played Lawrence, the concert pianist, just because his vast knowledge of classical music was astonishing to me.
- Matthew House's first salon, in Lidget, Oakworth, includes an old-fashioned barber's chair, as well as an imported children's chair to horse around in.
- It started off basically as a way to just horse around.
- The girls were helping themselves to some cookies when they saw some of them wandering in, laughing and horsing around after their excursion.
- You'd like to think she did, maybe while she was horsing around with Diego in the early days, or when she was painting in her eyebrows on those self-portraits.
- We arrived at the skate park laughing and continued to horse around.
- There will be plenty of horsing about going on at a big top near the Trafford Centre this week.
- There will be an hour of horsing around to Robbie Williams, followed by a Bob the Builder or Barbie cake.
- This didn't leave much time for the snowball fights and horsing around my friends engaged in.
- A powerful man tilting the scales at well over 200 pounds and dressed in full gear jumping on another man is not horsing around on a foam mat.
- I say to them, ‘my husband I think is horsing around.'
- I did nothing but read the paper, watch TV and generally horse around.
- Then we got to our transfer spot and as they waited mom and daughters fooled around, pulling at one another and horsing around.
- You know that game where I chase you around and we horse around on the floor?
- I enjoyed horsing around with a new person in the group, talking, arguing, eating, drinking, running around in breaks to see who can run faster.
- More young people are in school who would rather be elsewhere, and they tend to horse around.
- Bryson Donaldson, 12, was horsing around at his Muskogee, Oklahoma, school one morning last fall, mimicking the cops-and-robbers scenario that is as American as apple pie and Al Pacino.
Synonyms
fool about, fool around, play the fool, act foolishly, act the clown, act the fool, play about, play around, clown about, clown around, monkey about, monkey around, play tricks, indulge in horseplay, engage in high jinks

Origin

Old English hors, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ros and German Ross.

词汇	horse
释义	Definition of horse in English: horse noun hɔːshɔrs 1A large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads. 马 Equus caballus, family Equidae (the horse family), descended from the wild Przewalski's horse. The horse family also includes the asses and zebras Example sentencesExamples Insurance companies offered policies to cover cattle, poultry, sheep, goats, horses, elephants, dogs, ducks and fishes. Her father had stocked an entire stable with sleek, powerful racing horses, and she had adored them all equally. Horses were first used to pull chariots, and it was not until horses large enough to carry a man had been bred, broken, and trained that the cavalryman proper made his appearance. Fiona explained that riding school ponies and horses occasionally get lazy and bored with the same daily routine. But still, it's a lot better than most of what's out there, and as a fan of horses and horse racing, I enjoyed it a lot. In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes. Cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and other large farm animals seem to fall well outside the paradigm of urban farming. Domestic donkeys interact well with other livestock animals such as horses, cows, goats, sheep, and llamas. Both horses carried bulging saddlebags packed with supplies. A big reason is that rhinos, unlike horses, cannot be domesticated. His error was so glaring that Gagan should have noticed right away and pulled up his horse, as the rules of racing dictate. The mowing machine for the barley and oats was pulled by two horses and carried two people - the blades would be flying when it was in use. The Kazakh village is one of two sites competing for the honor of being the first place where humans are thought to have domesticated horses. Now domesticated, horses occur throughout the world and in feral populations in some areas. At other times, seeds were harrowed in by horses pulling brush or else by sheep trampling the ground. Some good stock, including horses, cattle, sheep and pigs were on exhibition. He cared for his horse, choosing only the finest horses to carry him for he knew his life depended on having a well-cared for mount. The Miller Farm no longer raises livestock, except for a few pet horses, goats and sheep. Racing began about three minutes after man domesticated the horse. A horse pulling a cart carrying racegoers was struck by lightning and died and a passenger was killed. Synonyms mount, charger, yearling cob, draught horse, carthorse, packhorse, racehorse pony, foal, colt, stallion, gelding, mare, filly nag, hack North American bronco Australian/New Zealand moke, yarraman archaic steed, jade children's word gee-gee 1.1 An adult male horse; a stallion or gelding. 成年公马；种马；阉割过的马 Example sentencesExamples The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare. I now have more mares than male horses though among the top 10 I own three of them are males. 1.2 A wild mammal of the horse family. 野生的马科动物 Example sentencesExamples Wild horses roam the roads and in the jungle you can find giant moths apparently the inspiration for Mothra, Godzilla's legendary foe. The horse family - Equiidae - was an especial success story during the Neogene. Wild horses can be tamed, but Finch said it takes someone who is knowledgeable and experienced. Wild horses in the New Forest get along perfectly fine, wandering around outdoors, free and naked and just getting more hairy in winter. This grandly titled traditional animation from DreamWorks centres on an untamed horse in the old Wild West which is captured by the army and harshly broken in to join the cavalry. On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars. Paintings of horses - and other wild animals of ice age Europe such as lions and mammoths - long predate human portraiture. Wild horses and cattle are also entering the park from the Hermannsburg Aboriginal land. 1.3treated as singular or plural Cavalry. 骑兵 forty horse and sixty foot 40名骑兵和60名步兵。 Example sentencesExamples The next level down was the commander of the fire unit - the horse artillery troop or foot artillery company - equivalent to modern batteries. Before the enemy had time to turn to see what was happening, mace, lance, and horse slammed right into them. The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing. He fought alongside the duke at the naval battles off Lowestoft in 1665 and at Sole Bay in 1672 and, though a catholic, was made colonel of a regiment of horse. Synonyms mounted troops, cavalrymen, horse soldiers, troopers 2A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse. （尤指锯木架）支架 Synonyms framework, rack, holder, stand, base, support, mounting, mount, platform, prop, rest, chock, plinth, bottom, trivet, bracket, frame, subframe, structure, substructure, chassis 2.1Nautical A horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship. 〔航海〕（帆船上起支撑作用的）横杠（或横杆、绳索等） 2.2 short for vaulting horse Example sentencesExamples R. Mikaelyan was first among the Soviet gymnasts who started with the long horse. He won the silver medal on the long horse and a special prize for an original vault. And the wall bars and horses which have characterised school gym halls for hundreds of years will be replaced by treadmills and electronic recumbent bikes. Attempting a vault, her right foot missed the springboard and she crashed headfirst at full speed into the horse. Meanwhile, Gary or Craig, or whatever his name was from Steps, possibly became the first person to be throw by a gymnasium horse. A year later Olga won her first award at the national title meet - a gold medal in the horse vault. 3informal A unit of horsepower. 〈非正式〉马力 a 63-horse engine 4informal mass noun Heroin. 〈非正式〉海洛因 Example sentencesExamples Easy, add someone doing bong hits or horse in the rectum and you've got instant mise en scène. Instead of a bunch of layabouts smoking glue and cracking charlie's horse with LSD, we could have good, fit criminals with discipline and firearms skills. He remembers his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse. For the great horse called heroin will take you to hell. 5Mining An obstruction in a vein. 〔矿〕夹块，夹石，马脊岭 verb hɔːshɔrs with object Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses. 给（人或车辆）提供马 six men, horsed, masked, and armed Example sentencesExamples After 1812 shortage of horses meant that a five-squadron French dragoon regiment might go to war with three squadrons horsed and two on foot. North and South learned early on that horsed formations could not charge ranks of infantry armed with the new rifled musket, and they relegated cavalry to scouting and raiding roles. High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache. I'm uncertain whether the Millennium Dome is a smart thing to have on one's CV, but I see it as a stepping stone to Ensign Ewart, my fully horsed spectacular, soon to be lavishly mounted at Covent Garden. For firms horsing their own vehicles, the cost of the yard would be a joint cost and cannot be divided between horses and vehicles. In previous wars, horsed cavalry had performed such a role, but cavalry were generally of little use in the trenches of the Western Front. It didn't sound like the dozen horsed riders that she'd expected; it sounded like half of that. Phrases don't change horses in midstream proverb Choose a sensible moment to change your mind. 〈谚〉不要中流换马；不要在紧急关头改变策略 Example sentencesExamples ‘You don't change horses in midstream,’ he says. flog a dead horse Waste energy on a lost cause or unalterable situation. from the horse's mouth (of information) from the person directly concerned or another authoritative source. （消息）直接来自有关人士的，来自权威人士的 Example sentencesExamples In case you've been wondering what Pamela Anderson's been up to lately, here's the news straight from the horse's mouth. Web coverage extends this further and offers the opportunity of getting information ‘straight from the horse's mouth.’ Time was, if you wanted accurate information it was best to get it from the horse's mouth. Those were the days when any scribe could get any information he needed from the horse's mouth. I thought we needed to hear it straight from the horse's mouth - we are already getting analysis and summaries. Pop scientists Sagan and Asimov wrote about a great many things they lacked professional expertise in, yet the facts always seemed to come straight from the horse's mouth. Here again, no information from the horse's mouth, only from ‘widespread reports across the Indian media‘. An unsurprising reaction, of course, but I figured that since I had something straight from the horse's mouth, I'd pass it along. This is not mere speculation; we have it from the horse's mouth. This is a positive thing; it's good for students at all levels to get information straight from the horse's mouth, not only for accuracy but also for enthusiasm and authenticity. Synonyms reliable, dependable, trustworthy, good, sound, authentic, valid, well founded, attested, certified, verifiable horses for courses proverb Different people are suited to different things. 〈英谚〉马各有赛场，人各有所长 Example sentencesExamples However, it is horses for courses and we can't say for sure that every boy will play all their matches for the club team. Instead of horses for courses, they're going for another outsider. My answer to that question is that sometimes you have to make a rugby decision based on a horses for courses policy, and this is such an occasion. I think it's very much horses for courses - it's about getting a good balance between public and private sector. Always a believer in horses for courses - since the advent of the squad system at least - the Scotland coach is likely to chop and twiddle and tinker over the five championship games. However, coach Clive Woodward chose horses for courses and Tindall started the game and typified England's thirst for victory with some big hits. They are cheap and safe and have gained NHS approval, so it's horses for courses on this one. In fact, it is a case of horses for courses but whatever you do, please give your ferry route some careful consideration. Sometimes it's a matter of being in the right place at the right time or what you might call horses for courses. So I'm not interested in politics, it's horses for courses. to horse (as a command) mount your horses! （作为命令）上马！ Example sentencesExamples ‘Well, to horse then,’ said Hal after a uncomfortable pause, ‘And I had been hoping for a good night's rest, too.’ Pray forgive my haste, but I must to horse before the coming of the rosy-fingered dawn. you can lead (or take) a horse to water but you can't make him drink proverb You can give someone an opportunity, but you can't force them to take it. 〈谚〉牵马到水边易，逼马饮水难（你可以给人机会，但你不能逼他们去做） Example sentencesExamples As the saying goes that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, so the same goes with standards education. To paraphrase Keynes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. But the old, old cliché says you can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink, well we believe that we can make him thirsty. It's really hard - you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink it. Phrasal Verbs horse around (or about) Fool about. 〈非正式〉捣蛋，鬼混胡闹 they were talking silly and horsing around Example sentencesExamples A powerful man tilting the scales at well over 200 pounds and dressed in full gear jumping on another man is not horsing around on a foam mat. I did nothing but read the paper, watch TV and generally horse around. The actors laze about and horse around with each other until the time for their scenes. I enjoyed horsing around with a new person in the group, talking, arguing, eating, drinking, running around in breaks to see who can run faster. It connotes eating, drinking, dancing, joking, laughing, and horsing around. We did the usual horsing around, inventing handshakes and dumb dances and songs, but I really liked Robert Tsai who played Lawrence, the concert pianist, just because his vast knowledge of classical music was astonishing to me. Bryson Donaldson, 12, was horsing around at his Muskogee, Oklahoma, school one morning last fall, mimicking the cops-and-robbers scenario that is as American as apple pie and Al Pacino. We arrived at the skate park laughing and continued to horse around. It started off basically as a way to just horse around. From moments of calm and almost stillness, there is a wonderful male glee in horsing around, pushing, shoving, improvising with arms, hands, positions and timing. Entitled, ‘We're a horsing around - it's a catastrophe ’, they were both dressed up as cats and had bandages around themselves and the pony. I remember once, I was horsing around with her - she was trying to run me over with her chair and I was getting in close and leaping out of the way. You know that game where I chase you around and we horse around on the floor? There will be an hour of horsing around to Robbie Williams, followed by a Bob the Builder or Barbie cake. Mr Annan gave him a pass, but told him not to horse around in the hall and to remember to wash his hands. Peak photographer Josh Devins and I horsed around in our combat fatigues and chatted with the other reporters. I say to them, ‘my husband I think is horsing around.' The girls were helping themselves to some cookies when they saw some of them wandering in, laughing and horsing around after their excursion. More young people are in school who would rather be elsewhere, and they tend to horse around. You'd like to think she did, maybe while she was horsing around with Diego in the early days, or when she was painting in her eyebrows on those self-portraits. There will be plenty of horsing about going on at a big top near the Trafford Centre this week. Then we got to our transfer spot and as they waited mom and daughters fooled around, pulling at one another and horsing around. Matthew House's first salon, in Lidget, Oakworth, includes an old-fashioned barber's chair, as well as an imported children's chair to horse around in. This didn't leave much time for the snowball fights and horsing around my friends engaged in. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play the fool, act foolishly, act the clown, act the fool, play about, play around, clown about, clown around, monkey about, monkey around, play tricks, indulge in horseplay, engage in high jinks Derivatives horse-like adjective The Malayan tapir is a good climber, scaling steep slopes with relative ease, and when alarmed gallops off with surprising speed on its horse-like hooves. Example sentencesExamples Moreover, a terracotta horse-like figurine with a saddle on its back has been found in Balu in the Harappan urban phase. A reptilian head was accompanied by a horse-like body. That the fossil record documents a large number of stable horse-like species has no relevance to the question of whether the horse fossils we have provide strong evidence of common descent. The centaur had her four cockatrices perched on the spine of her horse-like half, and her cat was at her side. Origin Old English hors, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ros and German Ross. An ancient word that has relatives in most northern European languages. The root may also be the source of Latin currere ‘to run’ (see cursor). Horse racing has given numerous expressions to the language. The saying horses for courses is from the idea that each racehorse is suited to one particular racecourse and will do better on that than on any other. A. E. T. Watson's The Turf in 1891 was the first to record this observation, which he describes as ‘a familiar phrase on the turf’. The underlying idea of straight from the horse's mouth is that the best way to get racing tips is to ask a horse directly. One of the first examples comes from a 1913 edition of the Syracuse Herald: ‘Lionel hesitated, then went on quickly. “I got a tip yesterday, and if it wasn't straight from the horse's mouth it was jolly well the next thing to it.”’ People often say something like, ‘Oh, wild horses wouldn't…’, meaning that nothing could persuade them to do that particular thing, not realizing the horrific reference—it comes from the old custom of executing criminals by tying each of the four limbs to four horses and then urging the horses on, tearing the person into four pieces. To flog a dead horse is to waste energy on a lost cause or a situation that cannot be altered. Dead horse used to be workmen's slang for work that was charged for before it was done: to work or work for a dead horse was to do work that you had already been paid for. An early form of the proverb you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink was ‘They can but bringe horse to the water brinke, But horse may choose whether that horse will drinke’ (1602). The horse chestnut was formerly said to be a remedy for chest diseases in horses, and its name is a translation of Latin Castanea equina. In horsefly (Late Middle English), horseradish (late 16th century), and similar terms horse implies ‘large of its kind’. See also dark, easel, equestrian, gift Rhymes coarse, corse, course, divorce, endorse (US indorse), enforce, force, gorse, hoarse, morse, Norse, perforce, reinforce, sauce, source, torse noun.1 phr. phr.v. Definition of horse in US English: horse nounhɔrshôrs 1A large plant-eating domesticated mammal with solid hoofs and a flowing mane and tail, used for riding, racing, and to carry and pull loads. 马 Equus caballus, family Equidae (the horse family), descended from the wild Przewalski's horse. The horse family also includes the asses and zebras Example sentencesExamples The mowing machine for the barley and oats was pulled by two horses and carried two people - the blades would be flying when it was in use. At other times, seeds were harrowed in by horses pulling brush or else by sheep trampling the ground. In winter, teams of horses dragged sledges loaded with cut logs across frozen lakes. Some good stock, including horses, cattle, sheep and pigs were on exhibition. His error was so glaring that Gagan should have noticed right away and pulled up his horse, as the rules of racing dictate. Horses were first used to pull chariots, and it was not until horses large enough to carry a man had been bred, broken, and trained that the cavalryman proper made his appearance. He cared for his horse, choosing only the finest horses to carry him for he knew his life depended on having a well-cared for mount. Both horses carried bulging saddlebags packed with supplies. Cattle, horses, sheep, goats, and other large farm animals seem to fall well outside the paradigm of urban farming. The Miller Farm no longer raises livestock, except for a few pet horses, goats and sheep. A big reason is that rhinos, unlike horses, cannot be domesticated. But still, it's a lot better than most of what's out there, and as a fan of horses and horse racing, I enjoyed it a lot. Now domesticated, horses occur throughout the world and in feral populations in some areas. Domestic donkeys interact well with other livestock animals such as horses, cows, goats, sheep, and llamas. The Kazakh village is one of two sites competing for the honor of being the first place where humans are thought to have domesticated horses. Insurance companies offered policies to cover cattle, poultry, sheep, goats, horses, elephants, dogs, ducks and fishes. Her father had stocked an entire stable with sleek, powerful racing horses, and she had adored them all equally. Fiona explained that riding school ponies and horses occasionally get lazy and bored with the same daily routine. A horse pulling a cart carrying racegoers was struck by lightning and died and a passenger was killed. Racing began about three minutes after man domesticated the horse. Synonyms mount, charger, yearling 1.1 An adult male horse; a stallion or gelding. 成年公马；种马；阉割过的马 Example sentencesExamples I now have more mares than male horses though among the top 10 I own three of them are males. The photo is cropped closely so that the reader is not aware that he's looking at a picture of a male horse rather than a mare. 1.2 A wild mammal of the horse family. 野生的马科动物 Example sentencesExamples On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars. Paintings of horses - and other wild animals of ice age Europe such as lions and mammoths - long predate human portraiture. Wild horses can be tamed, but Finch said it takes someone who is knowledgeable and experienced. Wild horses roam the roads and in the jungle you can find giant moths apparently the inspiration for Mothra, Godzilla's legendary foe. Wild horses and cattle are also entering the park from the Hermannsburg Aboriginal land. Wild horses in the New Forest get along perfectly fine, wandering around outdoors, free and naked and just getting more hairy in winter. This grandly titled traditional animation from DreamWorks centres on an untamed horse in the old Wild West which is captured by the army and harshly broken in to join the cavalry. The horse family - Equiidae - was an especial success story during the Neogene. 1.3treated as singular or plural Cavalry. 骑兵 forty horse and sixty foot 40名骑兵和60名步兵。 Example sentencesExamples Before the enemy had time to turn to see what was happening, mace, lance, and horse slammed right into them. The cavalry regiments have always been splendidly dressed, with the light horse being the most dashing. The next level down was the commander of the fire unit - the horse artillery troop or foot artillery company - equivalent to modern batteries. He fought alongside the duke at the naval battles off Lowestoft in 1665 and at Sole Bay in 1672 and, though a catholic, was made colonel of a regiment of horse. Synonyms mounted troops, cavalrymen, horse soldiers, troopers 2A frame or structure on which something is mounted or supported, especially a sawhorse. （尤指锯木架）支架 Synonyms framework, rack, holder, stand, base, support, mounting, mount, platform, prop, rest, chock, plinth, bottom, trivet, bracket, frame, subframe, structure, substructure, chassis 2.1Nautical A horizontal bar, rail, or rope in the rigging of a sailing ship for supporting something. 〔航海〕（帆船上起支撑作用的）横杠（或横杆、绳索等） 2.2 short for pommel horse or vaulting horse Example sentencesExamples Meanwhile, Gary or Craig, or whatever his name was from Steps, possibly became the first person to be throw by a gymnasium horse. And the wall bars and horses which have characterised school gym halls for hundreds of years will be replaced by treadmills and electronic recumbent bikes. A year later Olga won her first award at the national title meet - a gold medal in the horse vault. Attempting a vault, her right foot missed the springboard and she crashed headfirst at full speed into the horse. He won the silver medal on the long horse and a special prize for an original vault. R. Mikaelyan was first among the Soviet gymnasts who started with the long horse. 3informal A unit of horsepower. 〈非正式〉马力 the huge 63-horse 701-cc engine 巨大的63马力701立方厘米发动机。 4informal Heroin. 〈非正式〉海洛因 Example sentencesExamples Instead of a bunch of layabouts smoking glue and cracking charlie's horse with LSD, we could have good, fit criminals with discipline and firearms skills. Easy, add someone doing bong hits or horse in the rectum and you've got instant mise en scène. For the great horse called heroin will take you to hell. He remembers his first taste of marijuana, his first snort of horse. 5Mining An obstruction in a vein. 〔矿〕夹块，夹石，马脊岭 verbhɔrshôrs [with object]usually be horsed Provide (a person or vehicle) with a horse or horses. 给（人或车辆）提供马 Example sentencesExamples High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache. After 1812 shortage of horses meant that a five-squadron French dragoon regiment might go to war with three squadrons horsed and two on foot. For firms horsing their own vehicles, the cost of the yard would be a joint cost and cannot be divided between horses and vehicles. I'm uncertain whether the Millennium Dome is a smart thing to have on one's CV, but I see it as a stepping stone to Ensign Ewart, my fully horsed spectacular, soon to be lavishly mounted at Covent Garden. In previous wars, horsed cavalry had performed such a role, but cavalry were generally of little use in the trenches of the Western Front. North and South learned early on that horsed formations could not charge ranks of infantry armed with the new rifled musket, and they relegated cavalry to scouting and raiding roles. It didn't sound like the dozen horsed riders that she'd expected; it sounded like half of that. Phrases don't change horses in midstream proverb Choose a sensible moment to change your mind. 〈谚〉不要中流换马；不要在紧急关头改变策略 Example sentencesExamples ‘You don't change horses in midstream,’ he says. beat a dead horse Waste energy on a lost cause or unalterable situation. frighten the horses usually with negativeDo something likely to cause public outrage or offense. David's views would not have frightened the horses Example sentencesExamples Has been stealthily been doing his bit to redistribute wealth without frightening the horses (and the newspapers). Although the minimum wage was introduced at a level calculated not to frighten the horses, its potential ratcheting up is a ticking time-bomb in the engine room of the economy. David's views, which surely should have been known, would not have frightened the horses. We don't want him frightening the horses of middle England when the Tories finally have some momentum. Labour is still afraid, or unwilling, to say exactly what it is doing, so it uses euphemisms which won't frighten the horses. Even on the fashion front, although the dresses were classically glamorous, not one would have frightened the horses. In order to stay in office, such a government would probably do very little to frighten the horses. The number one priority in TV comedy today is ' don't frighten the horses ', and it's probably number two and three as well. The Government does not want to frighten the horses. Who cares what the Bishop of Reading gets up to in his spare time; provided he doesn't do it in the street and frighten the horses? from the horse's mouth (of information) from the person directly concerned or another authoritative source. （消息）直接来自有关人士的，来自权威人士的 Example sentencesExamples Time was, if you wanted accurate information it was best to get it from the horse's mouth. Pop scientists Sagan and Asimov wrote about a great many things they lacked professional expertise in, yet the facts always seemed to come straight from the horse's mouth. This is not mere speculation; we have it from the horse's mouth. Web coverage extends this further and offers the opportunity of getting information ‘straight from the horse's mouth.’ I thought we needed to hear it straight from the horse's mouth - we are already getting analysis and summaries. In case you've been wondering what Pamela Anderson's been up to lately, here's the news straight from the horse's mouth. This is a positive thing; it's good for students at all levels to get information straight from the horse's mouth, not only for accuracy but also for enthusiasm and authenticity. Those were the days when any scribe could get any information he needed from the horse's mouth. An unsurprising reaction, of course, but I figured that since I had something straight from the horse's mouth, I'd pass it along. Here again, no information from the horse's mouth, only from ‘widespread reports across the Indian media‘. Synonyms reliable, dependable, trustworthy, good, sound, authentic, valid, well founded, attested, certified, verifiable horses for courses proverb Different people are suited to different things or situations. 〈英谚〉马各有赛场，人各有所长 Example sentencesExamples Sometimes it's a matter of being in the right place at the right time or what you might call horses for courses. In fact, it is a case of horses for courses but whatever you do, please give your ferry route some careful consideration. Instead of horses for courses, they're going for another outsider. So I'm not interested in politics, it's horses for courses. However, coach Clive Woodward chose horses for courses and Tindall started the game and typified England's thirst for victory with some big hits. They are cheap and safe and have gained NHS approval, so it's horses for courses on this one. I think it's very much horses for courses - it's about getting a good balance between public and private sector. Always a believer in horses for courses - since the advent of the squad system at least - the Scotland coach is likely to chop and twiddle and tinker over the five championship games. However, it is horses for courses and we can't say for sure that every boy will play all their matches for the club team. My answer to that question is that sometimes you have to make a rugby decision based on a horses for courses policy, and this is such an occasion. to horse (as a command) mount your horses! （作为命令）上马！ Example sentencesExamples ‘Well, to horse then,’ said Hal after a uncomfortable pause, ‘And I had been hoping for a good night's rest, too.’ Pray forgive my haste, but I must to horse before the coming of the rosy-fingered dawn. you can lead (or take) a horse to water but you can't make him drink proverb You can give someone an opportunity, but you can't force them to take it. 〈谚〉牵马到水边易，逼马饮水难（你可以给人机会，但你不能逼他们去做） Example sentencesExamples But the old, old cliché says you can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink, well we believe that we can make him thirsty. It's really hard - you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink it. To paraphrase Keynes, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. As the saying goes that you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink, so the same goes with standards education. Phrasal Verbs horse around (or about) Fool around. 〈非正式〉捣蛋，鬼混胡闹 schoolkids laughing and horsing around Example sentencesExamples Mr Annan gave him a pass, but told him not to horse around in the hall and to remember to wash his hands. I remember once, I was horsing around with her - she was trying to run me over with her chair and I was getting in close and leaping out of the way. It connotes eating, drinking, dancing, joking, laughing, and horsing around. Peak photographer Josh Devins and I horsed around in our combat fatigues and chatted with the other reporters. From moments of calm and almost stillness, there is a wonderful male glee in horsing around, pushing, shoving, improvising with arms, hands, positions and timing. The actors laze about and horse around with each other until the time for their scenes. Entitled, ‘We're a horsing around - it's a catastrophe ’, they were both dressed up as cats and had bandages around themselves and the pony. We did the usual horsing around, inventing handshakes and dumb dances and songs, but I really liked Robert Tsai who played Lawrence, the concert pianist, just because his vast knowledge of classical music was astonishing to me. Matthew House's first salon, in Lidget, Oakworth, includes an old-fashioned barber's chair, as well as an imported children's chair to horse around in. It started off basically as a way to just horse around. The girls were helping themselves to some cookies when they saw some of them wandering in, laughing and horsing around after their excursion. You'd like to think she did, maybe while she was horsing around with Diego in the early days, or when she was painting in her eyebrows on those self-portraits. We arrived at the skate park laughing and continued to horse around. There will be plenty of horsing about going on at a big top near the Trafford Centre this week. There will be an hour of horsing around to Robbie Williams, followed by a Bob the Builder or Barbie cake. This didn't leave much time for the snowball fights and horsing around my friends engaged in. A powerful man tilting the scales at well over 200 pounds and dressed in full gear jumping on another man is not horsing around on a foam mat. I say to them, ‘my husband I think is horsing around.' I did nothing but read the paper, watch TV and generally horse around. Then we got to our transfer spot and as they waited mom and daughters fooled around, pulling at one another and horsing around. You know that game where I chase you around and we horse around on the floor? I enjoyed horsing around with a new person in the group, talking, arguing, eating, drinking, running around in breaks to see who can run faster. More young people are in school who would rather be elsewhere, and they tend to horse around. Bryson Donaldson, 12, was horsing around at his Muskogee, Oklahoma, school one morning last fall, mimicking the cops-and-robbers scenario that is as American as apple pie and Al Pacino. Synonyms fool about, fool around, play the fool, act foolishly, act the clown, act the fool, play about, play around, clown about, clown around, monkey about, monkey around, play tricks, indulge in horseplay, engage in high jinks Origin Old English hors, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ros and German Ross. noun.1 phr. phr.v.
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