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Get off your high horse

"Get off your high horse" is an idiom people retort with in an argument when the other person is acting like a holier-than-thou being when in reality, they aren't. To put it in a simpler manner, to tell people to stop acting as if they're the top authority when they aren't.
Person A: "I am completely entitled to go around dismissing people when they do something completely normal just because they're wrong and I'm ultimately right."

Person B: "Get off your high horse."
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Generally, this term is used by those who need to release urine. The symbolism of "long horse" and "short walk" are up to the user's interpretation.
John: You know, though our conversation is enthralling, I admit I must taking the long horse for a short walk. In other words, I must urinate, as you may know from the saying's entry on Urban Dictionary.
Jane: Ok.
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Put Horse Cock Here

I'm literally just making this so I can buy a mask that says it
plz put horse cock here uwu
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Finish third in a two horse race

bottle something so badly that you lose out of something which was taken for granted before.
Only Spurs can finish third in a two horse race.
by hallucinating_019 June 28, 2022
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A stronger way of saying the phrase, "fuck you and the horse you rode in on".
{Chris}: Todd, it's your turn to clean the Collecto* out tonight.
{Todd}: Christ, I cleaned the fucking thing last night and the night before! Fuck you and the horse that rode you in!

* The Collecto (abbr. for the Winston CollectraMatic) is the pressurised deep fat fryer used for preparing Original Recipe chicken at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
by Telephony July 29, 2014
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Words don't win a horse race

This is an old New England saying, specifically originating during the heyday of Rockingham Park Racetrack in Salem, New Hampshire. You might say this when someone is all talk and no action or saying something they can't back up.
Asenath: I can cross-stitch so much better than you!
Ivory (who is a sought-after bride because of her cross-stitch skills): Words don't win a horse race.
by Herodotus Greenleaf October 12, 2020
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