6 useful English phrases with horses -- Free English lesson

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6 useful English phrases with horses -- Free English lesson

We have more phrases about horses than any other animal; only phrases about dogs come close. Horses don't loom large in the lives of most English-speaking people today, but they did at the time that the modern English began to be formed. In this lesson we will learn six phrases with horses.

Get off your high horse:
To stop acting arrogant or superior.
Example : Get off your high horse , you aren't as smart as you think you are.

Eat like a horse:
To eat large amounts of food
Example : I eat like a horse.

To Flog / Beat a dead horse:
Fruitless effort
Example : He keeps going for auditions but I think he's flogging/beating a dead horse.

To Hold your horses:
If you are doing something too fast and you need to hold on or slow down.
Example : She has invested a lot of money .she needs to hold her horses.

Straight from the horse's mouth:
From authoritative or dependable source.
Example : She is quitting her job, I heard it straight from the horse's mouth.

To Back the wrong horse:
To support someone or something that cannot succeed.
Example : I invested a lot of money on him and eventually realized I have backed a wrong horse.
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I really appreciate your passion and determination to educate people. I love your confidence while teaching English I wanna be like you Maam. so far my English is not very good but am trying  to reach up to the same level of confidence which currently u are having. Great Job Salute to you.

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I have not enough word to thank you.I have been watching your useful lessons for awhile, and now I feel more confident in all parts English(Writing, Reading, Specially Speaking).
Thanks a million and GOD bless you.

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Great video! I've only heard about the " to hold your horses". Execellent, now I have five more expressions in my vocabulary. Thank you. :)

Marcostation
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It is very useful and interesting mam/sister,   very nice explanation, keep posting like this new day-to-day phrases, esp. from conversing point of view it is very useful.  Really wonderful.  This will improve my English in a better way.  Thank you so much!

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...i am a great fan of your vedio lessons and teaching method. these are useful, informative and innovative .
you hardly make vedio on phrasal veebs ..my request to u is please make lesson on phrasal verb ..as these are essential part of speaking..and difficult to grasp.. i see some of phrasal verb like lay (lay out, lay down), lean (lean in, lean on etc) and many more on newspaper and get confuse to figure out the actual meaning of that paragraph or what editor wanna
i"II be wating for ur respose....hope u will reply soon..take care!!


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please give daily vocabulary that are most used in hole
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