coach horse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coach horse
First recorded in 1580–90
Example Sentences
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Anderson is like the family coach horse," Novelist William Faulkner once said; "He's dependable, you can trust him to take the children to Sunday school safely.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Cleveland bay coach horse is descended from the famous Darly Arabian, and preserves in a wonderful manner the thoroughbred outline.
From The Evolution of an English Town by Gordon Home
I am like the old hackney coach horse, Mr. Weller—or is it Mr. Jingle—tells us of; if the shafts were drawn away I should probably collapse.
From Paul Kelver, a Novel by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
A hackney coach horse turned into a field of grass, falls not more eagerly to a breakfast which lasts the whole day, than I attacked the old folios, so respectably covered with dust.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
Those that uses to be where the buffes be are not so bigg, but about the bignesse of a coach horse.
From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Pierre Esprit Radisson
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