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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
- 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
- albatross
- arrearage
- arrears
- bad news
- baggage
- below the line
- bill
- bite
- capital
- check
- chit
- claim
- commitment
- credit
- cuff
- damage
- dead horse
- debenture
- debit
- defalcation
- default
- deficiency
- deficit
- due
- due bill
- dues
- duty
- encumbrance
- in hock
- in the hole
- in the red
- inadequacy
- indebtedness
- insufficience
- insufficiency
- invoice
- IOU
- lack
- liability
- loss
- manifest
- mortgage
- note
- obligation
- outstandings
- paucity
- price tag
- promissory note
- receipt
- reckoning
- red ink
- responsibility
- scantiness
- score
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- tab
- tally
- underage
- voucher
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