Horse play or rough housing means you are playing rough with someone. Either hitting, Wrestling or slapping. Usually by guys and usually intended as a reminder for young boys. I got swats in junior high school for horse play.
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Nothing. The phrase is "man about the house" not "horse".
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was a horse-riding phrase. It meant to ride a horse until it was overheated. The image is of your horse in an oven baking because you rode it too long or too fast.
"The shoes of the horse" is not a sentence, it is a noun phrase; the phrase has no verb. There is no possessive noun is the phrase. The possessive form for the phrase is: "The horse'sshoes...".
Dark Horse is an older synonym for underdog, also used sometimes in elections. A dark horse is someone unlikely to win in a competition.
The phrase "Play It Again" means to play something again. For example, if this was in a mobile game, it would mean to re-play the level or do the game again.
The phrase about horses is actually, "That is a horse of a different color," not feather. The feather animal phrase is, "That is a bird of a different feather." The horse of a different color was in the movie, "The Wizard of Oz:" and the phrase means some kind of unrelated or incidentally related matter with a distinctly different significance.
A horse in a race that is going to win. It is undoubted the horse will win. The horse cannot lose. It is a done deal. Nothing can prevent this event happening.
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Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This was what a cowboy called corned beef. The insinuation was that it was as tough as horse meat.
Cowboys loved a colorful phrase! This one compares a horse to a six-gun. A six-shooter horse is a very fast one.
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