Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. dated, nautical The period of work on board ship for which the seamen have been paid in advance (usually a month's wages) the end of this term being celebrated by parading a straw horse about the decks.
- n. Australia rhyming slang for tomato sauce.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. [Law] an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance.
Examples
“Richard saw a dead horse in one narrow street, the rotting animal, attended by a cloud of flies, still hitched to its wagon as it awaited someone to come haul it away.”
“I am not ashamed to say that I, Etienne Gerard, sat upon my dead horse and sank my face in my hands in my despair.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dead horse’.
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horse phrases
phrases compounds
horned horse, horse aloes, horse-and-buggy, horse and foot, horse and horse, horse ant, horse arm, horse-armoury, horse-arms, horse-artillery, horse-ball, horse-balm and 445 more...
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dead phrases/words
how dead is used
(as) dead as mutton, (as) dead as the ..., be dead meat, to, be dead on, to, be dead, to, dead against, dead and alive, dead and buried, dead and done (fo..., dead and gone, dead-and-goneness, dead angle and 138 more...
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rhyming slang
nelson eddys, apples and pears, whistle and flute, trouble and strife, berkeley hunt, jam jar, dog and bone, butchers' hook, barnet fair, boat race, bird lime, aryton senna and 26 more...
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Let's get back to our enraged sheep :...
Idiomatic wisdom from other countries and cultures. For some of the more obscure languages, expressions were found on the excellent site omniglot.com
donde ronca tigre..., a cada cerdo le l..., Поредити бабе и жабе, baba şi mitraliera, a otro perro con ..., llevar hierro al ..., no se le puede pe..., no se pescan truc..., ada udang di bali..., ropa inte hej för..., nu är det kokta f..., att lägga lök på ... and 210 more...
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Kenny kens kenning
Kenning: a stock phrase of the kind used in Old Norse and Old English verse as a poetic circumlocution in place of a more familiar word. Examples are banhus (bonehouse) for ‘body’, and saewudu ...
slaughter dew, sword dance, battle sweat, onion of war, blood worm, brow stars, raven harvest, feeder of ravens, hawk mountain, sea steeds, whale road, spear din and 109 more...
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This List Could Choke a Horse
horse-drawn, horse chestnut, horseless carriage, saddle horse, light horse, pommel horse, horsepower, hobbyhorse, hobby-horse, rocking horse, iron horse, flying horse and 82 more...
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sionnach Australian slang for tomato ketchup
(presumably by rhyming with 'tomato sauce')? Jul 24, 2008