@etymologynerd: i left out so many 🐎 leave more metaphors in the comments!! #etymology #linguistics #language #horses #culture

skore :

if not for horses, sailing, and baseball, we'd have next to no idioms in English.

flyingscotsman :

So it's just horses and boats huh?

Pingu🔴🟠 :

I heard you slip in saddled at the beginning 😭

Breakfast :

“saddled”?

behati :

Bro missed the biggest one: HORSEPOWER. Harvard, take his degree away

Jaqueline :

Omg… Ken was right, the patriarchy IS all about horses!

zizzle007 :

love the way you snuck saddle in there right out of the gate 🏇🏇

CDVR :

had me glued to the screen

Hannah Mary961 :

you sure arehorsing around with this one😄😆😆😆

Dave'sNotHere :

Of all the posts I've seen today, this one wins by a nose!

MonkeMan :

So it all leads back to Umamusume?

perennials :

Many clothing brands still have glimpses of equestrian wear in their pieces, even though those clothes were never destined to be worn riding. See collared polo shirts and tall leather boots with small heels and shelves for spurrs

Elder Olgrin (Josh B.) :

I was champing at the bit for this video

li 🍮 :

The people yearn for cavalry

James :

i think we need more horses per capita

MoonRaiser117 :

Iwan :

Chivalry and chivalric both come from cheval which is French for horse

Matty :

Chicken jockeyyyy

user6392029205619 :

I feel like we’ve had blinders on all this time!

Direct Brett :

Was thinking about how I was using “hold your horses” and how strange that phrase is now

Reality Check Politics :

Another political term is to describe our election system where whomever gets the most votes wins as a First-past-the-post system. It just referred to horse racing where it didn’t matter if a horse wins by a lot or a nose, they win.

mckenna :

ive always wondered if the exclamation "whoa" stems from what people tell horses for them to slow down

Mark Whalan :

Sounds like every corporation should have a least one live horse on staff

Juni Shark :

UMA MUSUME

JustaScallywag🏎️16-87 :

i only learned that free rein wasn’t free reign like last year