As a child she pretended the worn hobby-horse was a noble steed and rode it across the living room.

The old rocking-horse in the attic still creaks when a child sits on it.

His claim was nothing but horse puckey.

She grabbed her calf after a charlie horse struck during the marathon.

The director insisted the new film should be a horse-opera, complete with sweeping landscapes and melodramatic showdowns.

The chef grated fresh horse-radish to add a sharp bite to the sauce.

The statue had a strange, horse-like appearance that unsettled everyone at the gallery.

During the long, windless stretch of sea, the old captain muttered tales of the Horse Latitudes, where ships were left becalmed for days.

After days of calm and drifting, the captain blamed the ship's slow progress on the horse-latitudes.

They found a horse leech attached to the horse's flank in the pasture.