carthorse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Jamelia says her dancing is "the family joke" and despite Carol's belief she is like a carthorse on the dancefloor Jamelia believes the standard of dancing this year is pretty good.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2015
"I am a carthorse," says BBC Breakfast weather presenter Carol Kirkwood.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2015
Her winning poem, "Clothes that escaped the Great War", tells of the plodding carthorse who would take boys away to war, and then return, later, with just their clothes.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2013
At any rate, a callow Hurst was more of a wow than the perspiring carthorse the formation yoked him to, perspiringly diligent Roger Hunt.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2013
A little boy was riding into Cloom farmyard astride a big carthorse, whistling and beating time with a toy switch upon its irresponsive flanks.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
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