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单词 to ask the question
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to ask (a horse) the question
P14. Horse Racing. to ask (a horse) the question: (of a rider) to communicate to (a horse) that a special effort is required.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > actions of rider
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to ask (a horse) the question1894
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1894 H. Custance Riding Recoll. vi. 88 Until the last ten strides, when I really asked ‘King Lud’ the question.
1963 Listener 25 July 128/2 Do as little galloping as possible till the last moment. That is when the jockey ‘asks his horse the question’, as they say.
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