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Literature | Grey Mare The Grey Mare is the better horse. The woman is paramount. It is said that a man wished to buy a horse, but his wife took a fancy to a grey mare, and so pertinaciously insisted that the grey mare was the better horse, that the man was obliged to yield the point. Macaulay says: "I suspect [the proverb] originated in the preference generally given to the grey mares of Flanders over the finest coach-horses of England." The French say, when the woman is paramount, C'est le mariage d'epervier (`Tis a hawk's marriage), because the female hawk is both larger and stronger than the male bird. "As long as we have eyes, or hands, or breath, We'll look, or write, or talk you all to death. Yield, or she-Pegasus will gain her course, And the grey mare will prove the better horse." Prior: Epilogue to Mrs. Manley's Lucius. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | GREY MARE. The grey mare is the better horse; said of a woman who governs her husband. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Crosswords: GREY MARE |
| Specialty definitions using "GREY MARE": Mosse. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Grey mare grazes in pasture with foal lying beside her. Credit: USDA. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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grey mare | 10 |
old grey mare | 10 |
arabian grey mare | 5 |
dapple grey mare | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "GREY MARE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | gyeplőt (the grey mare is the better horse), nadrágot (the grey mare is the better horse), az asszony viseli a kalapot (the grey mare is the better horse), az asszony viseli a (the grey mare is the better horse), az asszony tartja kezében a (the grey mare is the better horse), az asszony az úr a háznál (the grey mare is the better horse). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | eygray aremay женщина (a bit of muslin, a bit of skirt, expectant mother, female, hen, old woman, petticoat, skirt, woman, womankind, women, womenfolk), держащая своего мужа под башмаком. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-m-r-r-y" | |
-2 letters: grayer, greyer, meager, meagre, merger, reamer, regear. | |
-3 letters: agree, ameer, armer, eager, eagre, emery, gamer, gamey, gayer, germy, marge, marry, merer, merge, merry, ragee, ramee, rearm, regma, yager, yarer. | |
-4 letters: aery, agee, ager, army, eery, eger, eyer, eyra, eyre, game, gamy, gear, germ, gram, gray, gree, grey, gyre, mage, mare, mere, rage, rare. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-m-r-r-y" | |
+2 letters: gendarmery. | |
+3 letters: gerrymander, lammergeyer. | |
+4 letters: gerrymanders, lammergeyers. | |
+5 letters: gerrymandered. | |
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