سۆز تۈركۈمى: noun1 a large animal with four legs, a MANE (= long thick hair on its neck) and a tail. Horses are used for riding on, pulling carriages, etc:
He mounted his horse and rode off. * a horse and cart
seealsoCOLT, FILLY, FOAL, GELDING, MARE, STALLION
2 = VAULTINGHORSE
seealsoCLOTHESHORSE, HOBBYHORSE, ROCKINGHORSE, SEAHORSE, STALKINGHORSE, TROJANHORSE, WHITEHORSES
IDIOMS
(straight) from the horse's mouth (informal) (of information) given by sb who is directly involved and therefore likely to be accurate
hold your horses (informal) used to tell sb that they should wait a moment and not be so excited that they take action without thinking about it first
horses for courses (BrE) the act of matching people with suitable jobs or tasks:
Only a skilled interpreter with teaching skills can teach interpreting. It is horses for courses.
a one, two, three, etc. horse race a competition or an election in which there are only one, two, etc. teams or candidates with a chance of winning:
The women's competition was a two horse race between last year's winners Surrey and the previous champions Essex.
moreatBACKv., BARNn., CARTn., CHANGEv., DARKadj., DRIVEv., EAT, FLOG, GIFTn., HIGHadj., STABLEn., WILDadj.
