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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]Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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