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SHOE THE HORSE

Specialty Definition: SHOE THE HORSE

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Shoe the Horse (To). (French, Ferrer la mule.) Means to cheat one's employer out of a small sum of money. The expression is derived from the ancient practice of grooms, who charged their masters for "shoeing," but pocketed the money themselves. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: SHOE THE HORSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-h-h-o-o-r-s-s-t"

-3 letters: heteroses, horseshoe, shoetrees.

-4 letters: orthoses, reshoots, sheerest, sheeters, sheroots, shoetree, shooters, soothers, threshes, toeshoes.

-5 letters: ethoses, heteros, hooters, horstes, reshoes, reshoot, seethes, sheeter, sheroot, shooter, soother, soothes, stereos, toeshoe.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SHOE THE HORSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 48 4F 45      54 48 45      48 4F 52 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001000 01001111 01000101 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001000 01001111 01010010 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#72 &#79 &#69 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#72 &#79 &#82 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0048 004F 0045      0054 0048 0045      0048 004F 0052 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53424939254423924249525339

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