Horses : noun Un cheval is a big mammal ungulate with mane.
Large horse: a large male woman.
Horse fever: A very high fever.
A horse remedy: a drastic remedy.
To have eaten horse: to be of boundless energy.
It is his hobbyhorse: discussion or favorite subject.
To be well on his horse: to have a good plate.
He's not the bad horse: he's not bad.
The death of the little horse: the end of an affair, of hopes.
A real (work) horse: a stubborn, tireless person.
Ride on his high horses: get carried away, take it from above.
It is not under, in the footsteps of a horse: it is something that is difficult to get hold of.
Battle horse: main stake.
Change a one-eyed horse for a blind one.
Saddlebags: cellulite.
Steak on horseback: garnished with a fried egg.
Horse: convicted of justice.
The expression "Eat with the wooden horses" : To have nothing to eat, to fast.
The managers of riding schools with wooden horses have a big advantage over those who have a riding school in a stud farm, it is that their horses do not eat anything, which greatly limits food costs.
From time to time they just need a little grease in the mechanisms that allow them to go up and down when the carousel turns.
It is therefore easy to understand the image contained in this expression, the one who eats with these poor horses having no more to eat than they.
In some French regions, the expression eat on wooden horses which in this form meant "to eat quickly", in connection with the discomfort of the position.
The expression "To ride on ..." : Be very demanding, very strict on - Attach great importance, rigorously stick to…
Those who are so demanding about various things such as principles, rules, or spelling, for example, are people who are supposed to know them well and who do not admit that one deviates from them or that one does not accept them. mistreated.
Can not the same be said of the rider vis-à-vis his mount?
And when we see schools like the Cadre Noir de Saumur where mounted horses must learn to do different jumps, the squire not always using stirrups, should he not be so firmly "attached", literally as well as figuratively, on his horse that others are in the quality of spelling or respect for principles?
Here are so many images from the equestrian world which have spread in everyday life to give birth to our expression whose date of appearance does not seem to be exactly known, but which is cited by the 1832 version of the Dictionary of the French Academy.
The expression "Ride on your high horses" : Get angry, get angry - Look down on.
In the past, while the horse was the main means of locomotion, several kinds were used, including the steed. It was the combat horse, a large breed animal (it was so named because the squire brought it with the right hand to the knight).
When knights fought, they rode on steeds and the larger the workhorse, the more they could observe and dominate the opponent.
So, originally, to get on his high horses was, for a troop of knights, to go to battle, having taken care to choose large mounts. From the ardor and ardor necessary to go to war in this way, figuratively and since the end of the XNUMXth century, we have remained with this metaphor where, in its first meaning, ardor has become that of the one who loses his temper.
As for the second meaning, its origin seems obvious, given the height from which the knight could with very little consideration address the pedestrian peasant.