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The reference to horses was first in James Carmichael's Proverbs in Scots printed in 1628, which included the lines: "And wishes were horses, pure [poor] men wald ride". [4] The first mention of beggars is in John Ray 's Collection of English Proverbs in 1670, in the form "If wishes would bide, beggars would ride". [ 4 ]
The young versions of Dudley Do-Right, Nell Fenwick, and Snidely Whiplash gather at a lake with Dudley's pet horse "Horse", where they talk of their aspirations. Dudley believes he is destined to be a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer (Mountie), and Nell wishes to see the world, while Snidely wishes to be a villain.
Sir Oliver: An older horse whose tail was docked, to his great annoyance and discomfort. Rory: A job horse usually paired with Black Beauty. Became a coal carting horse after getting hit in the chest by a cart driven on the wrong side of the road. Peggy: A hired horse who cannot run very fast due to her short legs.
The expression is said to have been popularized by the English politician and orator John Bright.Speaking in the House of Commons in March 1859 on Bright's efforts to promote parliamentary reform, Lord Elcho remarked that Bright had not been "satisfied with the results of his winter campaign" and that "a saying was attributed to him [Bright] that he [had] found he was 'flogging a dead horse'."
The horse appears less frequently in modern art, partly because the horse is no longer significant either as a mode of transportation or as an implement of war. Most modern representations are of famous contemporary horses, artwork associated with horse racing, or artwork associated with the historic cowboy or Native American tradition of the ...
In Chatelaine, 1939, the modern spelling arises: "Hold your horses, dear." [9] The term may have originated from army artillery units. Example: Hunt and Pringle's Service Slang (1943) quotes "Hold your horses, hold the job until further orders". [9] Dave Chappelle used the figurative term on his show towards Jim Brewer in a marijuana commercial
Zapata (1932) is a lithograph by the Mexican artist Diego Rivera (1886–1957) that depicts the Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) as he holds the reins of a horse among a group of campesinos (peasants).
His views on horse-human relations were embraced by inspirational writers on human relations. Lance Secretan wrote, "We may respect a leader, but the ones we love are servant-leaders." [ 3 ] In the beginning, Hunt said, "I was working in the mind of a lot of people who didn't want to believe the horse had a mind.