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单词 to play horse with
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to play horse with
18. to change horses: to substitute a fresh horse for that which has been ridden or driven up to this point; to change (swap) horses in midstream (while crossing a stream): to change one's ideas, plans, etc., in the middle of a project, progress, etc.; to hitch (also set, or stable) horses together, to agree, combine, get on with each other; to play horse with (U.S.): to treat roughly or unceremoniously; to take horse: to mount, start, or proceed, on horseback: see also 1c, 11 to talk horse: to talk the language of ‘the turf’; to talk big or boastfully; to hold one's horses: see hold v. 11c.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > be friendly [verb (intransitive)] > get on (well)
gree?a1513
to get in with1602
cotton1605
to hitch (also set, or stable) horses together1617
to hit it1634
gee1685
to set horses together1685
to be made for each other (also one another)1751
to hit it off1780
to get ona1805
to hitch horses together1835
niggle1837
to step together1866
to speak (also talk) someone's (also the same) language1893
to stall with1897
cog1926
groove1935
click1954
vibe1986
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > mount
worthOE
mountc1330
lighta1450
horse1535
to get up1553
to get on1613
to take horse1617
saddle1834
to saddle up1849
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport by relays of horses or vehicles > [verb (intransitive)] > get fresh relay of horses
to change horses1617
relay1829
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > boast [verb (intransitive)]
yelpc888
kebc1315
glorify1340
to make avauntc1340
boast1377
brag1377
to shake boastc1380
glorya1382
to make (one's) boastc1385
crackc1470
avaunt1471
glaster1513
voust1513
to make (one's or a) vauntc1515
jet?1521
vaunt?1521
crowa1529
rail1530
devauntc1540
brave1549
vaunt1611
thrasonize1619
vapour1629
ostentate1670
goster1673
flourish1674
rodomontade1681
taper1683
gasconade1717
stump1721
rift1794
mang1819
snigger1823
gab1825
cackle1847
to talk horse1855
skite1857
to blow (also U.S. toot) one's own horn1859
to shoot off one's mouth1864
spreadeagle1866
swank1874
bum1877
to sound off1918
woof1934
to shoot a line1941
to honk off1952
to mouth off1958
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > change of opinion > change one's mind [phrase]
to pick (also peck) mooda1225
to turn, wend the luff?c1225
to sing another song or a different tune1390
to waive (one's) wit1390
to change one's minda1500
to change (turn, alter) one's copy1523
to turn (one's) tippet1546
to change one's note1560
to shift hands1611
to face about1645
to change (swap) horses in midstream (while crossing a stream)1864
to sing another tune1890
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > ill-treat [verb (transitive)]
tuckc888
tawc893
misbedeOE
graithc1330
to fare fair or foul with1340
misusea1382
outrayc1390
beshrewc1430
huspelc1440
misentreat1450
mistreat1453
abuse?1473
to mayne evil1481
demean1483
to put (a person) to villainya1513
harry1530
mishandle1530
touse1531
misorder1550
worrya1556
yark1565
mumble1588
buse1589
crow-tread1593
disabuse1607
maltreat1681
squeeze1691
ill-treat1794
punish1801
tousle1826
ill-use1841
razoo1890
mess1896
to play horse with1896
to bugger about1921
slug1925
to give (a person) the works1927
to kick about or around1938
mess1963
c1450 Brut (Egerton) 450 (MED) On þe morow he toke hys hors and rode to Wyndysore vn-to our Kyng.
1482 W. Caxton in tr. Higden's Prolicionycion viii. xi. f. cccciiij He..toke his hors with a pryuy meyney.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) vii. 18 After masse [they] toke theyr horsses.]
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 12 Being ready to take Horse.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 29 They rode all night, having twise changed horse.
1651 J. Donne, Jr. in J. Donne Lett. Ep. Ded. The Cavaliers and They (that were at such enmity here) set their horses together there.
1675 T. Brooks Golden Key Ep. Ded. sig. a Bajazet,..Tamberlain a Tartarian took prisoner,..and used him for a foot-stool, when he took horse.
a1704 T. Brown Wks. (1760) III. 198 Faith and reason, which..can never be brought to set their horses together.
1743 J. Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 9 Just as I was taking horse, he return'd.
1809 R. Cumberland John de Lancaster I. 258 They'll never set their horses up together.
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vii. 195 The Earl and his retinue took horse soon after.
1835 Capt. M'Clintock in Atkinson's Casket June 330/1 After he poked his fist in my face, one 'lection, we never hitched horses together.
1837–40 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 117 They [man and wife] don't hitch their horses together well at all.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature II. xi. 337 Doctor, I am a borin of you, but the fact is, when I get a goin ‘talkin hoss’, I never know where to stop.
1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. ii. i. 63 An' so we fin'lly made it up, concluded to hitch horses.
1864 A. Lincoln in Compl. Wks. (1894) II. 531 I do not allow myself to suppose that either the Convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or best man in America, but rather they have concluded that it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.
1889 Universal Rev. Oct. 263 The princes..took horse and fled.
1891 Argus (Melbourne) 7 Nov. 13/2 In the stand [at a race]..I was privileged to hear the ladies talk horse.
1891 R. Kipling Life's Handicap 209 Half-a-dozen planters..were talking ‘horse’ to the biggest liar in Asia, who was trying to cap all their stories.
1896 G. Ade Artie xvii. 163 Do you think I'm goin' out ridin' with her and have a lot o' cheap skates stoppin' to play horse with her everywhere we go?
1904 W. H. Smith Promoters x. 169 You've got to have some well-matured plan ..if they try to play horse with you again.
1911 L. J. Vance Cynthia x. 157 Why does Madame Savaran insist on coming along to see that he doesn't play horse with her stake in the venture?
1923 L. J. Vance Baroque viii. 49 Remember the Wop detective that used to play horse with the Black Handers.
1940 ‘H. Pentecost’ 24th Horse v. 42 Don't come if you don't want to... Change horses in midstream if you want to.
1948 A. Toynbee Civilization on Trial 195 ‘Herodianism’..does not really offer a solution. For one thing, it is a dangerous game... It is a form of swapping horses while crossing a stream, and the rider who fails to find his seat in the new saddle is swept..to a death.
1951 H. S. Davies Gram. without Tears vi. 56 From the point of view of strict old-fashioned grammar, this is obviously bad; it involves a change from the singular to the plural horse in mid-stream of the sentence.
1969 Listener 13 Mar. 360/1 Another play which changed horses in midstream was William Ingram's Double Take. The long dialogue between the nervous kidnapper and his oddly calm victim was inconsequential and tense and had one thinking hopefully of Pinter.
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