COLLECTIVE NOUNS, SIMILE, IDIOMS, METAPHORS and EXPRESSIONS

​Horses and Ponies
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
Colts
  • A rack of colts
  • A rag of colts
  • A rake of colts
Gelding
  • A clipping of gelding
  • A brace of gelding
Horses
  • An harass of horses
  • A band of horses
  • A bloodstock of (thoroughbred) horses
  • A drove of horses
  • A harass of horses
  • A herd of horses - wild horses
  • A mob of horses
  • A pack of horses
  • A remuda of horses
  • A stable of horses
  • A string of horses
  • A stud of horses (for breeding)
  • A stud of mares
  • A team of horses
  • A troop of horses
Mules
  • A barren of mules
  • A span of mules
Ponies
  • A herd of ponies
  • A marmalade of ponies
  • A string of ponies
Racehorses
  • A field of racehorses
  • A meet of racehorses
  • A string of racehorses
Unicorns
  • A blessing of unicorns

SIMILE
  • As hungry as a horse
IDIOMS, METAPHORS AND EXPRESSIONS
  • A dark horse
  • A horse of another colour
  • A horse of a different colour
  • A one-horse town
  • A nod is as good as a blink to a blind horse
  • A stalking horse
  • A willing horse
  • An old war horse
  • Back the wrong horse
  • Beat a dead horse
  • Bet on the wrong horse
  • By shank's pony/mare
  • Champ/chomp on the bit
  • Change horse in midstream
  • Dark horse
  • Donkey years
  • Eat like a horse
  • Every horse thinks his on pack is the heaviest
  • Flog a dead horse
  • Get off/on one's high horse
  • Hold your horses
  • Hoof it
  • Horses for courses
  • Horse in midstream
  • Horse-laugh
  • Horseplay
  • Horse sense
  • Horse-trading
  • 'Horses for courses"'If two ride on a horse, one must ride behind
  • If you can't ride two horses at once, you shouldn't be in the circus
  • If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride
  • It is too late to shut the stable door when the horse is stolen
  • Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
  • Never look a gift horse in the mouth
  • Never swap horses in mid-stream
  • On one's high horse
  • One-trick pony
  • Only fools and horses
  • Put someone out to pasture
  • Ride a hobby-horse
  • Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride to the devil
  • Straight from the horse's mouth
  • Swop horses
  • To drive a coach and horses through (something)
  • To find a mare's nest
  • To frighten the horses
  • To put the cart before the horse
  • To ride a higher horse
  • You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink
  • Wild horses couldn't drag me away
  • White horse
  • Work like a horse