تعريف (horse) في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- Berkley horse
- A BDSM apparatus consisting of a triangular frame to which a person can be tied for flogging
- HORSE
- A poker variant consisting of five different poker variants, with the rules changing from one variant to the next after every hand
- I could eat a horse
- Very hungry; short form of "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."
- Kaimanawa horse
- A hardy feral horse of New Zealand, descended from the domestic horses released in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Paint Horse
- A breed of horse that combines both the conformational characteristics of a western stock horse with a pinto spotting pattern of white and dark coat colours
- Przewalski's horse
- A rare, endangered horse, Equus ferus przewalskii, native to the steppes of Central Asia
- Trojan horse
- a social movement, political bill, or ideology with a negative agenda or evil intentions under the guise of positive values or good intentions
Indeed, it may turn out to be a Trojan horse that finally allows conservative ideologues, who have unsuccessfully laid siege to Medicare since the days of Barry Goldwater, to breach its political defenses.
- Trojan horse
- an offer made to lure customers, seeming like a good deal, that has the ultimate effect of extorting large amounts of money from the customer
- Trojan horse
- a subversive person or device placed within the ranks of the enemy
- Trojan horse
- a malicious program that is disguised as legitimate software
Worse than what could be observed about the program was the fear that it might be a Trojan horse program -- apparently innocent, but carrying a string of code instructing the computer to carry out a specific damaging instruction at some later time.
- Trojan horse
- a hollow wooden horse by which the Greeks gained access to Ilium or Troy
- a camel is a horse designed by a committee
- An expression critical of committees—or by analogy, group decision-making—by emphasizing the ineffectiveness of incorporating too many conflicting opinions into a single project. In this figure of speech, the distinguishing features of a camel, such as its humps and poor temperament, are taken to be the deformities that resulted from its poor design
You know what they say about committees, a camel is a horse designed by a committee - Honorable Mayor Lawrence Werther, Mayor of the Incorporated Village of Mineola, New York.
- and the horse you rode in on
- Euphemistic shortening of "fuck you and the horse you rode in on"
- and the horse you rode in on
- Intensifier
- ate like a horse
- Simple past of eat like a horse
- beat a dead horse
- To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason
After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van.
- beaten a dead horse
- Past participle of beat a dead horse
- beats a dead horse
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beat a dead horse
- charley horse
- A muscle cramp, usually in the thigh or leg
- charlie horse
- Alternative spelling of charley horse
- close the stable door after the horse has bolted
- To attempt to prevent a problem only to find it has already happened
- coach horse
- A member of the crew who rowed the admiral's barge or a state barge
- dark horse
- A candidate who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice
- dark horse
- An unexpected success
Everyone was expecting the red team to win, but the greens were the dark horse in the event.
- dead horse
- The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages) the end of this term being celebrated by parading a straw horse about the decks
- dead horse
- rhyming slang for sauce
- devil's coach-horse
- A large black European rove beetle, Staphylinus olens or Ocypus olens
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Do not unappreciatively question a gift or handout too closely
- draft horse
- a horse of a race specifically bred for such work, heavier and stronger than a mount
- draft horse
- a horse used for muscular work, other then carrying a rider and/or load, such as pulling a cart, plow or log
- draught horse
- Alternative spelling of draft horse
- eat like a horse
- to consume a large amount of food
- eaten like a horse
- Past participle of eat like a horse
- eating like a horse
- Present participle of eat like a horse
- eats like a horse
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of eat like a horse
- enough X to choke a horse
- An excessive quantity of X (where X is any thing or object)
You didn't have to buy enough wrapping paper to choke a horse, just because it was on sale.
- flog a dead horse
- To attempt to get extra work out of a ship's crew during the dead horse period
- flog a dead horse
- To attempt to get more out of something that cannot give more
- get off one's high horse
- To stop acting in an imperious, overbearing or bossy manner
- gift horse
- An apparent gift, that has substantial associated costs
The woman on the telephone in the science-faculty office found me an address for Timothy Butler in no time at all. Full marks for information retrieval. Zero for security. If I had been consulted, I would have insisted that callers produce something more compelling than a vague interest in locating a student before his address could be handed over. Still, what it is they say about a gift horse?.
- gift-horse
- Attributive form of gift horse
gift-horse inspection.
- grass mud horse
- One of the ten "mythical Baidu 10 Mythical Creatures|Baidu]] deities" invented by Chinese internet users for the purpose of circumventing censorship. Usually depicted as resembling an alpaca, and is supposedly living in the Gobi desert
Michael Wines. ..
- high horse
- An appearance or sense of smug superiority
- hobby horse
- A child's toy consisting of a (usually wooden or cloth) horse mounted on a stick
- hobby horse
- The Irish hobby, an extinct breed of horse
- hobby horse
- A topic about which someone loves to talk at great length
Don't ask him about global warming: it's his favourite hobby horse, you'll never get away.
- hobby horse
- An early bicycle with no pedals or brakes; a draisienne
- hobby horse
- A puppet-like costume used in some traditional dances and festivals that gives its wearer the appearance of a man on horseback
- hobby-horse
- Alternative spelling of hobby horse
- horse
- Heroin
Alright, mate, got any horse?.
- horse
- A large person
Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
- horse
- To provide with a horse
- horse
- The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname
Now just remind me how the horse moves again?.
- horse
- Cavalry soldiers (often capitalized)
All the King's Horse and all the King's Men, couldn't put Humpty together again.
- horse
- A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; foot ropes
- horse
- In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top
She's scored very highly with the parallel bars, let's see how she does with the horse.
- horse
- To frolic, to act mischieviously. Usually followed by "around"
If you're going to horse around, we'll never get this done.
- horse
- Any current or extinct animal of the family Equidae, including the zebra or the ass
These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
- horse
- A hoofed mammal (scientific name Equus caballus)
A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
- horse and cart
- A cart, pulled by a horse and driven by a driver, used for transporting goods
- horse and rabbit stew
- A mixture of the crude and the delicate in grossly unequal quantities, with the crude overwhelmingly dominant
- horse archer
- A cavalryman armed with a bow
- horse archers
- plural form of horse archer
- horse armor
- Purchasable downloadable content that provides only cosmetic effect, with no actual enhancement to gameplay or to player stats
Valve just wants to make sure anything they release and sell for the game will have real value.We don't want to give you horse armor, he said.. Kotaku. Gawker Media: 2008-08-31. URL accessed on 2008-09-01.
- horse armor
- Armor for a horse in battle
Thus, some types of Spanish horse armor consisted of heavy leather covers for the entire body of the horse and covering the head.
- horse around
- To play or fiddle; to clown; to do nothing of importance or consequence
Stop horsing around with the controls, before you break something.
- horse bean
- broad bean, Vicia faba
- horse beans
- plural form of horse bean
- horse blanket
- A blanket placed underneath the saddle of a horse
- horse blanket
- currency in the 1800s consisting of large size notes/bills
Typically your small size (the same physical size as regular money, as opposed to the old horse blankets) silver certificate is worth about 5% more than face.
- horse blankets
- plural form of horse blanket
- horse hockey
- False or deceitful statements; lies; exaggerations; nonsense. (a euphemism for horseshit)
- horse hockey
- An expression of disbelief or disgust
- horse mackerel
- a large fish; variously the Australian bonito (Sarda australis), the pilot fish (Naucrates ductor), or the jack mackerel (genus Trachurus)
- horse mackerels
- plural form of horse mackerel
- horse of a different color
- An unrelated or only incidentally related matter with distinctly different significance
Against physical danger I am willing to offer myself at any time to your Highness . . . . But to walk straight into jail, with my eyes open, that's a horse of a different color..
- horse of a different colour
- Alternative spelling of horse of a different color
- horse opera
- A theatrical production, film, or program on radio or television depicting adventures of characters in the American Old West; a western
Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay.
- horse opera
- An equestrian show, as in a circus
Nor is it much easier to give the analysis of this extraordinary odyssey, which relates the trials, sufferings, and adventures of an ex-Sous-Prefêt, who has married a circus rider, and has abandoned home, friends, and position, to become the manager of an itinerant horse-opera.
- horse operas
- plural form of horse opera
- horse piss
- Lies, untruths
- horse piss
- Nonsense, gibberish
- horse power
- a machine that used draft horses as a source of power
- horse puckey
- An alternative form of horse hockey
- horse pucky
- nonsense; feces
That is just a bunch of horse pucky.
- horse race
- A competitive race for horses carrying jockeys; often the subject of betting
- horse race
- An exciting and arduous competition (as in a political campaign)
- horse races
- plural form of horse race
- horse racing
- a sport where horses and their jockeys compete to be fastest
- horse sense
- Common sense, especially with a connotation of folk wisdom independent from, and trumping, formal education
- horse trailer
- a transport for a horse
- horse whip
- riding whip, crop
- horse whisperer
- A horse trainer who adopts a sympathetic view of the motives, needs, and desires of the horse, based on modern equine psychology
- horse whisperers
- plural form of horse whisperer
- horse's ass
- A jerk; an unpleasant, unlikable person; an asshole
At the party he behaved like a real horse's ass.
- horse's ass
- A thing or person which is visually unappealing
That is one horse's ass of a paint job.
- horse's doovers
- An hors d'oeuvre
everyone throws their hats in the air and shouts hoorah! and then it's all over bar the drinks and horses' doovers and findin' your own hat.
- horse's mouth
- Source; someone who directly experienced or witnessed something
- horse-chestnut
- A species of trees of the genus Aesculus as it is known in Eurasia, common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres and called buckeyes in America
- horse-chestnut
- The large nutlike seed of these trees
- horse-drawn
- pulled along by a horse
- horse-hockey
- Attributive form of horse hockey, noun
- horse-opera
- Alternative spelling of horse opera
- horse-power
- Obsolete spelling of horse power
- horse-power
- Alternative spelling of horsepower
- horse-race
- Attributive form of horse race
horse-race participant.
- horse-whispering
- Any of various gentle techniques of training or breaking horses
- hung like a horse
- Having a large penis
- iron horse
- A steam railroad locomotive
- never look a gift horse in the mouth
- Alternative form of don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- on one's high horse
- Self-righteous; proceeding on the belief one is more correct or proper than others
When she gets on her high horse there is not much to do but go along with it or wait for it to pass.
- on your horse, amigo
- How are you?
- one-horse town
- A very small town
It's surrounded by beautiful wilderness, but otherwise it's just a one-horse town.
- one-horse towns
- plural form of one-horse town
- pack horse
- A horse used for carrying luggage
The pack horse was sick - with a big, open sore rubbed under the belly.
- pommel horse
- An apparatus for gymnastic exercises with a cylindrical body covered with leather and two upright pommels, as hand grips, near the centre; held upright with adjustable legs
- pommel horse
- An athletic event in which the pommel horse is used
- put the cart before the horse
- To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential
Mr. Schumer said that the idea of agreeing to a date for a vote before the committee had held hearings was to put the cart before horse..
- quarter horse
- An American breed of horse originally bred for short-distance racing
- ride a horse foaled by an acorn
- To be hung at the gallows
- rocking horse
- a child’s toy consisting of a (usually wooden) horse mounted on a rocker or swing
- rocking horse shit
- A metaphor for something exceedingly rare or, more likely, nonexistent
- rocking-horse
- Alternative spelling of rocking horse
- rocking-horse shit
- Alternative form of rocking horse shit
- saddle horse
- A horse that has been specially trained for riding, specifically the American Saddlebred
- sea horse
- Any of various small marine fish of the genus Hippocampus that have a horselike head and swim upright
- sea horse
- The walrus
- see a man about a horse
- A message signaling one needs to go missing for a short while, for any reason, without giving a real explanation
- see a man about a horse
- A message signaling one needs to urinate (used mainly of men)
Wait for me here. I'll only be a couple of minutes. I've just got to see a man about a horse.
- shire horse
- The tallest breed of draught horse
- side horse
- A pommel horse
- stalking horse
- A horse used as cover by a hunter stalking game
- stalking horse
- A candidate put forward instead of any of several potentially successful candidates in order to initiate a leadership debate, gauge feelings, divide opposition etc
- straight from the horse's mouth
- Directly from the source; firsthand
If you don't believe me, go talk to him and hear it straight from the horse's mouth. It's true.
- straight from the horse's mouth
- firsthand; direct; from the source
This is straight from the horse's mouth.
- vaulting horse
- A piece of gymnastic equipment with an upholstered body but no pommels
- water horse
- The kelpie
- white horse
- heroin, cocaine
- white horse
- a wave that is blown by the wind such that its crest is broken up and appears white and foamy; a whitecap
- white horse
- any of several horse-shaped chalk figures in England, such as the Uffington White Horse
- wild horse
- A member of the species Equus ferus (excluding Equus caballus)
- wild horse
- A feral horse
- wild horse
- An untamed horse
- you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
- You can show someone how to do something, but you can't make them do it
- Trojan Horse
- {i} large wooden horse which contained Greek warriors who surprise attacked the Trojans (Classical Mythology); something which is ostensibly good but brings harm; computer program which looks useful but contains a harmful code
- Trojan horse
- disapproval If you describe a person or thing as a Trojan horse, you mean that they are being used to hide someone's true purpose or intentions. Was Colombo the emissary of Pope Paul, his Trojan horse within the Commission?
- Trojan horse
- A Trojan horse is a computer virus which is inserted into a program or system and is designed to take effect after a particular period of time or a certain number of operations. the Trojan Horse a wooden horse used by Greek soldiers to trick their enemies the Trojans during the Trojan War. The Greeks hid inside a large wooden model of a horse and were taken into Troy by Trojan soldiers, who thought that it was a gift
- trojan horse
- A seemingly harmless computer virus that turns out to be extremely destructive
- horse
- {n} a quadruped for draft or carriage, a machine of various kinds for support, a rope upon a yard for seamen to stand on, cavalry
- horse
- {v} to mount, ride, furnish with horses
- beat a dead horse
- (deyim) Waste time on something that is a lost cause or likely to be unproductive, flog a dead horse [Brit]
- high horse
- (deyim) A mood or attitude of stubborn arrogance or contempt
Get down off your high horse and apologize.
- horse archer
- A horse archer (or horsed archer, mounted archer) is a cavalryman armed with a bow. The horse archer was the archetypical warrior of the Eurasian steppe and of the American prairies
- horse whisperer
- A horse whisperer is a horse trainer who adopts a sympathetic view of the motives, needs, and desires of the horse, based on modern equine psychology. The term goes back to the early nineteenth century when an Irish horseman, Daniel Sullivan, made a name for himself in England by rehabilitating horses that had become vicious and intractable due to abuse or accidental trauma
- one horse town
- (deyim) A small town with few and poor facilities
- straight from the horse's mouth
- (deyim) Directly from the person or place where it began; from a reliable source or a person that cannot be doubted
1. They are going to be married. I got the news straight from the horse's mouth their minister.
2. John found out about the painting straight from the horse's mouth, from the painter himself.
