hold one's horse 忍耐，镇静，别冲动

1 hold one's horse 忍耐，镇静，别冲动。

 

Dad, please hold your horse before you get mad at me...

爸，在对我发火之前，请你忍耐一下……

 

2 clothes horse 爱打扮，赶时髦的人。

 

Princess Diana was a real clothes horse. It's hard to imagine how much she had spent on clothes.

戴安娜王妃是一个很讲究穿戴的人，很难想象她花在衣服上的钱有多少。

 

*此外clothes horse figure指“衣服架子”，就是那种穿什么都好看的人。

 

3 talk horse 吹牛。

 

They often talk horse when they are free. 他们有空时常常在一起吹牛。

 

4 one-horse town 落后的小地方。

 

Then Beijing was a gray, drab, one-horse town where the main means of transportation was the bicycle.

那时的北京是一个灰色、乏味、设施简陋的城市，主要交通工具是自行车。

 

5 horse-and-buggy days 马车时代，以往岁月。

 

The post-industrial crisis¹ always reminds citizens of the horse-and-buggy days.

后工业时代的危机总是能让人们回想起以往的岁月。

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