1. put the cart before the horse : 本末倒置;
2. hitch one's horses : 意见一致; 相处得很好; 结婚;
3. eat like a horse : 吃得多;
4. talk horse : 吹牛;
5. horse around : 胡闹, 鬼混;
6. be on one's high horse : 趾高气扬;
7. set one's horses together : 意见一致; 相处得很好; 结婚;
8. flog a dead horse : 徒劳;
9. spur a willing horse : 给予不必要的刺激;
10. dark horse : n. 黑马(出人意外得胜之马);
11. work like a horse : 辛勤工作;
不及物动词
名词
1. 马
A horse is a large animal which people can ride. Some horses are used for pulling ploughs and carts.
2. 赛马
When you talk about the horses, you mean horse races in which people bet money on the horse which they think will win.
3. (体操器械)跳马
A vaulting horse is a tall piece of gymnastics equipment for jumping over.
4. 从知情人那里直接(获悉)
If you hear something from the horse's mouth, you hear it from someone who knows that it is definitely true.
5. see also: clothes horse;dark horse;rocking horse;seahorse. to put the cart before the horse
- see cart
相关词组:horse around
1. solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times
Synonym: Equus caballus
2. a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs
Synonym: gymnastic horse
3. a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse
can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)
Synonym: knight
4. a framework for holding wood that is being sawed
5. troops trained to fight on horseback
e.g. 500 horse led the attack
Synonym: cavalryhorse cavalry