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a horse of another

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  • horse\ of\ another\ color — • horse of a different color • horse of another color n. phr. informal Something altogether separate and different. Anyone can be broke, but to steal is a horse of a different color. Do you mean that the boy with that pretty girl is her brother?… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • one man may steal a horse, while another may not look over a hedge — People may take different degrees of liberty depending on our opinion of them. 1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs II. ix. K4 This prouerbe..saith, that some man maie steale a hors better, Than some other maie stande and loke vpone. 1591 LYLY… …   Proverbs new dictionary

  • (a) horse of another color — American a situation or a subject that is different from what you had first thought it was. You said you didn t like going to the movies, but if you don t want to go because you re broke, that s a horse of another color …   New idioms dictionary

  • horse of another colour —  Something entirely different …   A concise dictionary of English slang

  • horse — [hôrs] n. pl. horses or horse [ME hors < OE hors, hros, akin to Ger ross (OHG hros), prob. < IE base * (s)ker , to leap (or < ? * k̑ers , to run > L cursus)] 1. a domesticated or wild, perissodactylous mammal (Equus caballus), raised… …   English World dictionary

  • horse\ of\ a\ different\ color — • horse of a different color • horse of another color n. phr. informal Something altogether separate and different. Anyone can be broke, but to steal is a horse of a different color. Do you mean that the boy with that pretty girl is her brother?… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • Horse — For other uses, see Horse (disambiguation). Domestic horse …   Wikipedia

  • Horse murders — The horse murders scandal was a form of insurance fraud in the United States in which expensive horses, many of them show jumpers, were insured against death, accident, or disease, and then killed to collect the insurance money. It is not known… …   Wikipedia

  • horse — horseless, adj. horselike, adj. /hawrs/, n., pl. horses, (esp. collectively) horse, v., horsed, horsing, adj. n. 1. a large, solid hoofed, herbivorous quadruped, Equus caballus, domesticated since prehistoric times, bred in a number of varieties …   Universalium

  • horse of a different color — or[horse of another color] {n. phr.}, {informal} Something altogether separate and different. * /Anyone can be broke, but to steal is a horse of a different color./ * /Do you mean that the boy with that pretty girl is her brother? I thought he… …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • horse of a different color — or[horse of another color] {n. phr.}, {informal} Something altogether separate and different. * /Anyone can be broke, but to steal is a horse of a different color./ * /Do you mean that the boy with that pretty girl is her brother? I thought he… …   Dictionary of American idioms

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