- hold horses
- hold (your) horses
wait.
Hold your horses, Colin, I'm working as fast as I can!
Usage notes: usually used as an instruction, as in the example
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
hold horses
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Hold horses! — Hold (your) horses! informal something that you say in order to tell someone to stop doing or saying something because they are going too fast. Just hold your horses, Bill. Let s think about this for a moment … New idioms dictionary
Hold your horses — sometimes said as Hold the horses , is a common idiom to mean hold on or wait, which is believed to have originated in the United States of America in the 19th century and is historically related to horse riding, or driving a horse drawn vehicle … Wikipedia
hold your horses — 1. Not so fast 2. Wait a moment • • • Main Entry: ↑horse * * * hold your horses informal phrase used for telling someone to wait before doing something Thesaurus: ways of telling or asking someone to wait … Useful english dictionary
Hold your horses! — Hold (your) horses! informal something that you say in order to tell someone to stop doing or saying something because they are going too fast. Just hold your horses, Bill. Let s think about this for a moment … New idioms dictionary
hold your horses — hold (your) horses wait. Hold your horses, Colin, I m working as fast as I can! Usage notes: usually used as an instruction, as in the example … New idioms dictionary
hold your horses — If someone tells you to hold your horses, you are doing something too fast and they would like you to slow down … The small dictionary of idiomes
Hold — Hold, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Held}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Holding}. {Holden}, p. p., is obs. in elegant writing, though still used in legal language.] [OE. haldan, D. houden, OHG. hoten, Icel. halda, Dan. holde, Sw. h[*a]lla, Goth. haldan to feed, tend… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hold one's horses — ► hold one s horses informal wait a moment. Main Entry: ↑horse … English terms dictionary
hold your horses! — hold on!, wait a minute!, slow down! … English contemporary dictionary
Horses in warfare — War horse redirects here. For other uses, see War horse (disambiguation). A modern day joust at a … Wikipedia
