| 单词 | horses for courses |
| 释义 | > as lemmashorses for courses d. Other phrases and proverbs. horses for courses: a theory that each racehorse is suited to a particular race-course, and will do better on that course than on any other; also figurative; horse and horse (U.S.): equally matched, neck and neck; the horse's mouth: the original, authentic source of information, esp. in straight from the horse's mouth; horse-and-buggy (U.S.): bygone, old-fashioned (apparently used as quasi-n. in quot. 1926). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [adjective] > equal or well-matched fadging?1611 hand in hand1779 even Steven1837 horse and horsea1859 toe-to-toe1942 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > suitable or appropriate [phrase] it is worthy thata1398 in placea1568 in character1733 horses for courses1898 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > theory horses for courses1898 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 society > communication > information > action of informing > [noun] > source of information intelligencera1586 hand1614 source1788 vein1838 reference work1839 reference source1888 the horse's mouth1928 help-line1980 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [noun] > authenticity > as source of information the horse's mouth1928 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 9 Hwa is þet mei þet hors wettrien þe him self nule drinken? c1300 Prov. Hending xxvii He is fre of hors þat ner nade non, quoþ Hendyng. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 392 What man hath hors men yiven him hors. 1541 Schole House of Women sig. D.iv Rub a scalde horse vpon the gall And he wyll byte. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diii A man may well bryng a horse to the water. But he can not make hym drynke without he will. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Kiv That some man maie steale a hors better, Than some other maie stande and loke vpone. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Liii For it is..A proude hors that wil not beare his own prouander. 1573 J. Sanford tr. L. Guicciardini Hours Recreat. (1576) 208 He that can not beate the Horsse, beateth the saddle. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 16v The weather being faire, you bring a Horse to the Feelde (as they say) when you speake to me of going abrode. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Cheval The best-shod horse doth slip sometimes. 1640 G. Herbert Outlandish Proverbs in Wks. (Warne) 383 Choose a horse made and a wife to make. 1660 S. Pepys Diary 2 Feb. (1970) I. 38 After all this, we went to a sport called Selling of a Horse for a Dish of Eggs and Herrings; and sat talking there till almost 12 a-clock. 1672 W. Walker Paroemiologia Anglo-Lat. 37 It is a good horse that never stumbles. a1859 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (1859) 204 I sot down to old sledge along with Jake Stebbins. It was horse and horse, and his deal. 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 215 I'll not hang my bells on one horse: That is, give all to one son. 1897 Marquis of Salisbury in Ho. Lords 19 Jan. Many members of this House will keenly feel the nature of the mistake that was made when I say that we put all our money upon the wrong horse. 1898 A. E. T. Watson Turf vii. 160 A familiar phrase on the turf is ‘horses for courses’. 1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock i. 3 It was horse and horse between the professors. 1926 G. H. Maines & B. Grant Wise-crack Dict. 9/2 Horse and buggy, young lady out of date—with long hair. 1927 K. Eubank (title) Horse and buggy days. 1928 P. G. Wodehouse in Strand Mag. Aug. 114/1 The prospect of getting the true facts—straight, as it were, from the horse's mouth—held him..fascinated. 1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 18/4 Followers of the ‘horses for courses’ theory. 1929 A. Huxley Let. 1 Dec. (1969) 320 One or other of us may very likely be over..when there will be a chance of getting your news ‘straight from the horse's mouth’. 1930 F. Yeats-Brown Bengal Lancer xii. 172 We discuss..what Sir Mark Sykes said, straight from the horse's mouth. 1934 C. Day Lewis Hope for Poetry vi. 29 A pandemonium of slogans,..tips from the horse's mouth, straight talks,..etc. 1944 J. Cary (title) The horse's mouth. 1949 This Week Mag. 9 Jan. 5/1 Wherever this horse-and-buggy court is held, your chances of going scot-free are slim. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Oct. 609/1 She thinks that our docility, our patience, our contentedness or even complacency with charming, outmoded, horse-and-buggy ways of doing things are, as reflected in the public will, endangering our country's future. 1958 Listener 7 Aug. 207/1 Keats' letters remain the horse's mouth. 1958 Listener 2 Oct. 536/1 Mr. Butler [sc. a sculptor] spoke his own commentary: it was an odd mixture of naïveté and insight, a ‘horse's mouth’ statement vastly preferable to some smooth literary piece by an art critic. 1962 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 15/3 (headline) End of ‘horse and buggy’ medicine. 1963 Punch 18 Sept. 430/1 People enjoy what they are capable of enjoying—horses for courses. 1972 Daily Tel. 12 July 10/5 Horses for courses is a sound adage in motoring as well as the turf, and few British motorists would look to Czechoslovakia for their car. 1972 J. L. Dillard Black Eng. vi. 242 Such horse-and-buggy terms as whiffletree and singletree. < as lemmas |
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