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Antonyms for dead horse


Grammar : Noun



Definition of dead horse

  • As in debt : noun money owed to others
  • As in deficit : noun shortage of something needed, required
Example sentences :
  • Wherever he went, he met people who said to him, "Have you seen the dead horse?"
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • Here's a dead horse come to life and he's got everybody guessing.
  • Extract from : « Old Man Curry » by Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan
  • During this period they are said to be "working off the dead horse."
  • Extract from : « Six Letters From the Colonies » by Robert Seaton
  • There were two horses inside, but the dead horse blocked the door.
  • Extract from : « The Story of the Outlaw » by Emerson Hough
  • He knelt behind the dead horse, facing the advancing Spaniards.
  • Extract from : « Rita » by Laura E. Richards
  • He even lent a hand in lifting the dead horse into the cart.
  • Extract from : « The Forged Coupon and Other Stories » by Leo Tolstoy
  • A short time after this a cart with a dead horse in it passed our cab-stand.
  • Extract from : « Black Beauty » by Anna Sewell
  • I have been looking at him, and I believe he is a Methodist minister with a dead horse.
  • Extract from : « The Associate Hermits » by Frank R. Stockton
  • He saw Cheschapah run from the dead horse and jump on a gray pony and go.
  • Extract from : « Red Men and White » by Owen Wister
  • Nor were we more successful in our next water-hole, for it contained a dead horse.
  • Extract from : « Spinifex and Sand » by David W Carnegie

Synonyms for dead horse

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