Horse Idioms and Sayings

Over time I have gathered a list of horse idioms I’ve read or heard people use.
So, I keep adding to the list as I come across them.

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Horse Sayings – Idioms 

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

Straight from the horse’s mouth.

A Charlie horse

A horse of different color

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest

A one-horse race

A Trojan horse

I could eat a horse

He eats like a horse

Don’t back the wrong horse

Don’t beat a dead horse

Don’t change horses midstream

Don’t put the cart before the horse

Don’t spare the horses

For want of a nail the shoe is lost,
for want of a shoe the horse is lost,
for want of a horse the rider is lost.

Get off your high horse

Hold your horses!

Stop horsing around

A dark horse

Horse sense

Horses for courses

If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse

This is a one-horse town

Play the ponies

Put a horse out to pasture

Don’t put the cart before the horse

Shut the stable door after the horse has bolted (or)
lock the barn door after the horse is gone

Strong as a horse

Wild horses couldn’t drag him away

That’s Horseplay

Get on one’s hobby horse

Chomping at the bit to go

Let’s hoof it

Horse trading

Work like a horse

As stubborn as a mule

By shank’s mare (by foot)

Dog and pony show

Donkey’s years (long time)

Ride herd on (someone/something)

Old war horse

The South end of a North-facing horse

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Here’s some reader submissions:

Well, Bill sent me this just to prove
you CAN make a horse drink:

“You can lead a horse to water,
 but you can’t make him drink.
 You can lead a boy to class,
 but you can’t make him think.
 To make the horse drink,
 lead him into the stream.
 To make a boy think,
 lead him into the dream.”
— Anonymous

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One white hoof, buy him,
two white hooves, try him,
three white hooves, pass him by,
four white hooves, feed him to the buzzards.
(from a John Wayne movie, but still an old time favorite)

The original saying before the John Wayne movie:

One white foot shy
Two white feet try
Three white feet deny
Four white feet buy.
Brenda says: “I am 65 years old and when I was coming up in the horse world the above was the gospel according to the old time traders and they practiced it. I have seen many a dang good horse passed up by some of them because he had three stockings. Strange but true”

Never talk bad about a man’s horse,
dog, or wife, in that order.
(Words of wisdom I picked up
as a boy from an old rancher)

Horse lovers are stable people.

Saying from the race track:
“that horse can’t run fast enough
to scatter his own manure”

There’s nothin’ in life that’s worth doin’,
if it cain’t be done from a horse…

Fun reading!

If you know of any more, please email me at:

Charlie@HorseTrainingResources.com

Thanks,

Charlie

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