Today's Daily Double is... HORSE BASED TURNS OF PHRASE?!

seems to me like horses used to be a hell of a lot more important in the days of yore than they are today. enough on the mind that people could barely stammer through a sentence without invoking horse. don't believe me? maybe you just had the be there... i'm just calling a horse a horse.

horse:

• don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• hold your horses
• straight from the horses mouth
• can lead a horse to water but ya can't make it drink
• a dark horse
• beating a dead horse
• a horse of a different color
• don't back the wrong horse
• putting the cart before the horse
• horsing around
• hungry enough to eat a horse
• it's a one-horse town
• healthy as a horse
• horseplay
• straight as a horse's back
• ride the horse you came in on
• being on a high horse
• puttin on a horse and pony show
• one trick pony (pony = horse?)
• a trojan horse
• to be a work horse
• having a horse in the race
• horsepower
• puttin the ol horse out to pasture
• gotta talk to a man about a horse
• he's all hat and no horse
• he's all horse and no rider
• strung like a racehorse
• riding a runaway horse
• make the horse drink or drown
• a horse of many hands
• hooked on the horse (heroin)
• eat like a horse
• don't change horses midstream
• gotta piss like a racehorse
• hung like a horse
• there's a lotta money in horses, just hard to get it back out
• can't ride two horses with one ass
• never spur a willing horse
• a good horse is never a bad color
• can't shoe a running horse
• that horse won't run
• type a fella who would sell the same horse twice
• don't hitch your horse to a broke wagon
• a long ride for a short horse
• horsefeathers!
• hold the bridle, not the tail
• a horse doctor's dose

horse adjacent:

• gettin back in the saddle
• taking the reins
• to be spurred on
• takin a trip to the stamp factory
• rein it in
• bucking the trend
• saddle up
• riding high in the saddle
• bareback
• rode hard and put up wet
• free rein to do what you want
• front-runner
• keep them on a short/close/tight rein
• champing at the bit
• not my first rodeo
• don't squat with your spurs on
• riding hell for leather
• riding for a fall
• to spook easy
• shy at the jump
• riding roughshod