2012年6月8日 · The game was very violent and, in 1533, banned by the city, to be replaced in 1539 by horse racing. The first recorded race was held on February 9, 1539 with the consent of the Mayor Henry Gee, whose name led to the use of the term "gee-gee" for horses.[1]

So, despite what any crooked horse trader might have wished them to believe, informed horsemen in England stood little chance of being cheated about a horse's age—they had it on good authority, straight from the horse's mouth. The expression came into racetrack use in about 1830 and was part of everyday speech by 1900.

2013年12月1日 · A gift horse is a horse that was a gift, quite simply. When given a horse, it would be bad manners to inspect the horse's mouth to see if it has bad teeth. This can be applied as an analogy to any gift: Don't inspect it to make sure it matches …

2014年2月19日 · This is a one-horse race. You can't lose." One frequent situation where people refer to a "one-horse race" is in elections where a candidate on the ballot is running uncontested. This situation comes very close to the sense of being the only horse participating in a horse race. Sayyid Mir Qasim, My Life and Times (1992) offers this example:

2016年1月6日 · The first horse races I went to, at a county fair back in the 50s, did not have the jockeys sitting on the horses' backs, but rather in sulkies drawn behind the horses. Trotting races. And from the following lines in the Music Man, after comparing the corrupting influence of pool (as compared to wholesome billiards), Harold Hill sings in Ya Got ...

2021年8月27日 · look a gift horse in the mouth Be critical of something received at no cost. For example, Dad's old car is full of dents, but we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth . This term, generally expressed as a cautionary proverb ( Don't look a gift horse in the mouth ), has been traced to the writings of the 4th-century cleric St. Jerome, and has ...

2017年11月9日 · This means it is not a paddock, which is an ordinary field that can be used for training, or a corral, which is a fenced area where horses are kept before being transported (or, of course, where John Wayne turned his horse out while he had a drink in the saloon: perhaps some American contributor can say if this is still in use).

2014年10月27日 · Of the four, the horse is the "largest." Therefore, "eat like a horse" is to eat like a large animal, or "a lot." To "eat like a king" would be to eat expensive food (kings are rich). One king, Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary, had "roast beef" every day for lunch. To "eat like a mouse" would be to eat little (opposite of a horse).

2012年7月17日 · OP could always consider making use of ELU terminology - you get a Necromancer badge for answering a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more, which surely implies skill in "raising the dead [horse]", rather than beating/flogging it.

The etymology of "hung like a donkey" or "hung like a horse", that is the origin of this phrase is from the Bible. Ezekiel 23:20 "There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses." …