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hold your horses
Wait a moment or be patient [often because you are moving too quickly or thoughtlessly]. Whoa, hold your horses, kids. We're going to sing before we start eating cake. I know you're excited to see the prototype, but you all just need to hold your horses while we get set up.See also: hold, horseHold your horses!
andHold your tater!Fig. Inf. Wait! Tom: Let's go! Let's go! Mary: Hold your horses. Hold your tater, now. Where did you say you are going?See also: holdhold one's horses
Slow down, be patient, as in Dad told Kevin to hold his horses on Christmas shopping, since it was only July, or Hold your horses, I'm coming. This expression alludes to a driver making horses wait by holding the reins tightly. [Slang; c. 1840] See also: hold, horsehold your horses
SPOKENIf you say hold your horses, you are telling someone to stop doing or saying something for a moment because they have not thought enough about it. Hold your horses a minute, will you, and just take another look at this document.See also: hold, horsehold your horses
wait a moment; restrain your enthusiasm. informal 1999 Colin Dexter The Remorseful Day Hold your horses! One or two things I'd like you to check first, just to make it one hundred per cent. See also: hold, horsehold your ˈhorses
[informal] used for asking somebody to stop for a moment, speak more slowly, etc: Hold your horses! We havent finished the last question yet.See also: hold, horsehold ones horses
tv. to wait up; to relax and slow down; to be patient. [Usually a command.] Now, just hold your horses and let me explain. See also: hold, horsehold [one's] horses
To restrain oneself.See also: hold, horsehold your horses
Be patient. Originally this nineteenth-century Americanism directly instructed the driver to hold his team of horses, and later it became a colloquial imperative to slow down and wait.See also: hold, horse- hold horses
- hold ones horses
- hold one's horses
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- get ahead of [oneself]
- get ahead of oneself
- take it easy
- take it/things easy
- double buffalo
- take things easy
hold your horses
wait a minute, hold on, hold the phone "When I said the accident was his fault, he said, ""Hold your horses!"""Hold your horses!
Idiom[s]: Hold your horses!Theme: DELAY
wait a minute and be reasonable; do not run off wildly. [Folksy. From western movies.]
Now, hold your horses, John. Be reasonable for a change.
Don't get so mad. Just hold your horses.