单词 | to lay the saddle upon the right horse |
释义 | > as lemmasto lay the saddle upon the right (also wrong) horse P5. to lay the saddle upon the right (also wrong) horseand variants: to lay the blame on the right (also wrong) person; (also) to hold or form a correct (also incorrect) view about something. ΚΠ 1635 R. Shelford Five Pious Disc. 288 The Papist and the Protestant strive about the seat of Antichrist; the one would have it to be at Rome, the other not. In my judgement the Protestant sets the saddle on the right horse. 1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris ii. sig. C 1 You have laid the saddle upon the wrong Horse. 1690 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 336 E. G. with child, layd on the tapster, who said that ‘set the saddle on the right horse’. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 85 But let us bring things to a right Understanding, do Satan justice, and set the Saddle upon the right Devil. 1752 C. Lennox Female Quixote (1820) II. vii. xii. 154 I'll clear myself, and put the saddle upon the right horse! 1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 162 And the cat at last escapes from the bag; And the saddle is placed on the proper nag. 1870 J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Char. 7 It was deemed by them a providence, as putting the saddle on the right horse. 1914 W. De Morgan When Ghost meets Ghost xxiv. 787 I suppose I had forgotten which was which, of the two old ladies—had put the saddle on the wrong horse. 1995 Birmingham (Alabama) News (Nexis) 26 May (Editorial section) 6 a How is it possible to demean a person who acts in such a disgusting and uncivilized manner? It appears that Morris Dees has put the saddle on the wrong horse. < as lemmas |
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