willing horse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He's a very willing horse who always gives 110%.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 24, 2010
Canadair's grizzled, square-jawed president, known as "willing horse" because of his 12-to-18 hour workday.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is a condition of things which is bad, and bound of necessity to grow only worse and worse, till the willing horse drops under his load, and his master falls from poverty to destitution.
From Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" by Booth-Tucker, Commissioner
Nothing is more pitiful than to feel a willing horse like mine try to gallop as he used, and have to give it up simply for want of food.
From Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege by Nevinson, Henry W.
There was no use in working a willing horse to death; and perhaps I might also honestly say that by this time I was a trifle tired myself.
From Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler by Senior, William
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