"horse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In less than a month, the Jets (4-5) have gone from a broken-down horse to a horror-movie monster that simply will not die.
- A broken-down old horse bore an injured woman slumped over its neck, her thigh a bloody mass of tissue, open to the air.
- The racetrack was about as fit for duty as a broken-down horse.
- The Ohio effort began January, 1846 in Marietta, Ohio, and Howe intended to walk across the state, but bought a broken-down horse after 100 miles.
- Similarly, in both British and early American slang, a rip was "an old, broken-down horse."
- The author recounts rescuing a broken-down horse, which in turn helped rescue her.
- He lost his arm in the Sierra Mills, and like a broken-down horse you turned him out on the highway to die.
- This fellow rode into our village one day on a broken-down horse and started preaching in the schoolhouse.
- You wouldn't want him to become a broken-down horse hanging around race tracks, would you?
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