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Horse around   /hɔrs ərˈaʊnd/   Listen
Horse around

verb
1.
Indulge in horseplay.  Synonyms: arse around, fool, fool around.  "The bored children were fooling about"






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"Horse around" Quotes from Famous Books



... go back to the school-house at once, please," said Margaret, decidedly, and there was that in her voice that caused the man to turn the horse around and head it ...
— A Voice in the Wilderness • Grace Livingston Hill

... tenderness and memory swept over him. Poor Bev! He had made life hell for her, all right. He had an almost uncontrollable impulse to turn the horse around, go back and see her once more. He was gone anyhow. They would get him. And he wanted her to know that he would have died rather than do ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... to find other occupations in the interval of the war and he protracted the time. Fortune, however, settled the difficulty; for when he was at no great distance from Petra, and had already pitched his camp for that day and was exercising himself with his horse around the camp, letter-bearers rode up from Pontus with good tidings. This was manifest at once by the points of their spears, for they were wreathed with bay. Pompeius at first wished to finish his exercises, but as the men called out and entreated him, he leapt from his horse ...
— Plutarch's Lives Volume III. • Plutarch

... before. The bale of tobacco was set down, the bolt of scarlet silk, the chains of candy, the silver-filigreed saddle. "Now that I owe you naught, Bearded One, we have no further business with one another." He reined his horse around. "I go in sadness, ...
— Blind Man's Lantern • Allen Kim Lang

... Last Rose of Summer and a bobtailed flush!" says I, "what d'yer mean? What's got into you? Get out of my daylight, you dog-robber, or I'll walk the little horse around your neck like a three-ringed circus. Come, ...
— Red Saunders • Henry Wallace Phillips



Words linked to "Horse around" :   joke, fool, jest, arse around, play



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