| 单词 | as rare as rocking horse manure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas rare as rocking horse manure (also shit, etc.) C2. attributive. slang (originally Australian). In rocking horse manure, rocking horse shit, etc.: used in similative phrases as the type of something rare. Esp. in as rare as rocking horse manure (also shit, etc.). ΚΠ 1943 M. Harris Vegetative Eye iv. §4. 22 New urgencies will always emerge to make those rare moments of clarity and creative retrospect as rare as rocking horse manure. 1969 Chicago Tribune 25 Dec. ii. 26/8 He also realizes the value of friends, and this, in Hollywood, is about as rare as rocking horse manure. 1988 Guardian 5 Mar. 19/3 These are like rocking horse shit. You can't get 'em. 1993 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 13 Sept. Expecting leadership from the critic in question is a little like trying to find rocking-horse manure. 2003 P. F. Blakely Successful Shotgunning xvi. 207 The ducks are about as scarce as rocking horse droppings. 2008 J. Kennealy Still Shot 185 Kate is a smart woman, and they're as rare as rocking horse shit. < as lemmas |
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