shanks' mare

American  

Or shank's mare

noun

1. one's own legs, especially as a means of moving from one place to another.

   The only way we can get there is by shanks' mare.

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idioms

1. ride shanks' mare, to go on foot rather than ride; walk.

   It was such a delightful day that we decided to ride shanks' mare to the fair.

Example Sentences

Most of the patients traveled to Nairobi and Kampala, some by hospital plane, others by ambulance or on shanks' mare, barefoot.

From Time Magazine Archive

Non-bicyclists travel by shanks' mare, jampacked buses or a three-wheeled, one-cylinder contraption that can take six passengers.

From Time Magazine Archive

They packed tents, food, guns, building materials, ammunition into the steaming wastes by boat, truck, muleback, and shanks' mare.

From Time Magazine Archive

On election day some 65% of the eligible voters managed to get to the polls�by donkey cart, shanks' mare, even horse-drawn mourning coaches.

From Time Magazine Archive

We followed the wave of his hand, and climbed meekly aboard, although at lunch we had been carrying on an antiphonal hymn of praise to the pleasure and benefit of shanks' mare.

From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams