| 单词 | to ride a free horse to death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto ride a free horse to death a. Proverb. to ride a free horse to death: to take excessive advantage of a favour or asset, thereby squandering it. ΚΠ 1646 H. Peters Last Rep. Eng. Wars 12 He that will ride a free horse to death, may in time be spurring a dull Jade to no purpose. 1723 C. Walker Authentick Mem. Sally Salisbury i. 11 The inconveniency she put them to, oblig'd her to think of some Method for her own Support, without being troublesome to her Friends; or, as the saying is, to ride a free Horse to Death. 1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West Nov. 323 After digging his potatoes in the fall he intends sowing turnip seed on the same ground... This is crowding too much on the land; it is what a jockey would call ‘riding a free horse to death’. 1898 M. E. Braddon In High Places iv. 70 Many a meal you have shared with me has been at his expense, George. But do not suppose that I would ride a free horse to death—I only appealed to him when our case was desperate. 1988 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Jan. Town of Cicero residents didn't know a good thing when they had it. Now they don't have it. They have ridden a free horse to death. < as lemmas |
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