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wild horses

wild horses noun: a force not subject to human control and normally stronger than a man. Also the plural of wild horse.

Noun

wild horses

  1. (idiomatic) A force not subject to human control and normally stronger than a man.
    • Wild horses wouldn't have kept me from going to the party.
    • there's no denying that when you take a thing in your head wild horses couldn't turn you from it1869, Mackenzie Daniel, James Wyvern's Sin, page 298

Also used as

wild horses is also the plural of wild horse.

Questions about wild horses

What does wild horses mean?
Wild horses means a force not subject to human control and normally stronger than a man.
What part of speech is wild horses?
Wild horses is a noun.

Words near wild horses in the dictionary

  1. wild guesses
  2. wild haggis
  3. wild haggises
  4. wild hair
  5. wild horse
  6. wild horses
  7. Wild Hunt
  8. Wild Hunts
  9. Wild Huntsman
  10. Wild Huntsmen
  11. wild hyacinth

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