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What does this idiom mean......ive got to talk to a man about a horse?
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∙ 12y ago
Can also be I have to see a man about a dog.
The phrase has several meanings but all refer to taking one's leave for some urgent purpose, especially to go to the bathroom or going to buy a drink. The original non-facetious meaning was probably to place or settle a bet on a race, thus dog or horse.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt means they have to go relieve themselves in the bathroom. To talk about a horse might be a reference to horse buying, or it could refer to the act of cleaning up the horse poop
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