Hold your horses
We’re all familiar with the common idiom “hold your horses.” We might say that to a friend who’s upset about something, and we might hear that from a stranger when we’re losing our temper in public. We’ve never stopped to think about the meaning of this phrase, but luckily for us, Twitter user “John Snow” did.
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According to his interpretation, when you tell your friend to “hold their horses,” you’re telling them to be stable, since a stable is the place where people literally hold their horses. “Hold your horses” is a fancier way of telling someone to calm down, but we never realized the literal meaning behind it. Aren’t puns fun?