«GIVE A HORSE ITS HEAD» İLE İLİŞKİLİ İNGILIZCE KİTAPLAR
give a horse its head sözcüğünün kullanımını aşağıdaki kaynakça seçkisinde keşfedin.
give a horse its head ile ilişkili kitaplar ve İngilizce edebiyattaki kullanımı ile ilgili bağlam sağlaması için küçük metinler.
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The Language of
Horse Racing
... head: this means any measurable distance shorter than the horse's head. Then
follows a head, a neck, 1/i length, Vi length. . . See distance2. head2 To give a
horse its head, or lei him have his head, is let the head - hcat 105 horse go freely.
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Robert Frost and
a Poetics of Appetite
... and hard to control with whip and goad” (253, e).32 One may “give a horse its
head” and trust it to return home, but a “headless horse” is unimaginable, without
horse sense. (The centaur is exactly that figure of unrestrained appetite in which,
...
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I Used to Have
a Handle on Life But It Broke: Six Power ...
Failure to give a horse its head means we give it no credit for even knowing how
to walk. The animal needs its head for balance, and we cripple it with our urge to
be in control. The horse lets us sit on its most vulnerable spot, its spine, and we ...
[Literally, to give a horse its head means to slacken one's hold on the reins.] go to
(someone's) head (of praise, success etc) to make (someone) arrogant, foolish,
careless etc: All the publicity he has had because of his book has gone to his ...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
[Literally, to give a horse its head means to slacken one's hold on the reins.] go to
(someone's) head (of praise, success etc) to make (someone) arrogant, foolish,
careless etc: All the publicity he has had because of his book has gone to his ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
... were latched on to it hard and fast, and it could become Nightmare-Alice time.
drag the end of something, like a bunch of cattle dump rake a device used to rake
hay and dump it in a windrow or bunch it for caulking later give a horse its head ...
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Ghost Dance II: The Amulet
“At least our trail will be washed away,” he said confidently. That was all he was
confident of as he rode on into the night and the storm. Give a horse its head and
it will take you home. The words of his father sent a pang of emptiness through ...
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Papers on Psychoanalysis
... the head ofthe army; thehead ofa class;the head ofapin; theheadqfa coin; the
head ofthetable (i.e., theperson sitting atits chief end);the heads or headings ofan
article; themany idiomaticphrasessuch as' to give a horse its head,' etc. Itwould ...
Always give a horse its head and it'll take you home. You remember that. I used
to worry lots, too, and get scared, when we first came out here. Storms, and
loneliness, and so much space put civilization a long way off.” She pulled her
bandana ...
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Chembers 21 Century Dictionary
give a horse its head to let it go where, and as quickly as, it chooses. • give head
coarse slang to perform oral sex. • give someone his or her head to allow them to
act freely and without restraint. • go to one's head 1 said of alcoholic drink: to ...
«GIVE A HORSE ITS HEAD» TERİMİNİ İÇEREN HABERLER
Ulusal ve uluslararası basında konuşulanları ve
give a horse its head teriminin aşağıdaki haberlerde hangi bağlamda kullanıldığını keşfedin.
Greige Anatomy
As we say in horse racing, give a horse its head and hope it ends up a winner.” More Articles in Style » A version of this article appeared in print ... «New York Times, Eyl 08»
