| 单词 | horse around |
| 释义 | horse around (once / 30463 pages) v When you horse around with your friends, you play in a rough and silly way, wrestling and goofing around. When people horse around, they're silly and boisterous, fooling around in a physical way. Little kids horse around often, for example. The phrase doesn't immediately make sense, because you don't usually see horses playing in this way. Horse around probably comes from horseplay, and it in turn came from the old-fashioned verb horse, which was once used to mean "play crazy jokes on." Experts aren't sure how it came into use, or what horses have to do with it. WORD FAMILYhorse around: horsed around, horses around, horsing around USAGE EXAMPLES“Every time he saw a horse around him he jumped into the bridle.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016) Pervis and Bob would horse around in the motel swimming pool. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) Karissa A. Ronkin, who was 21 at the time, was “horsing around on the platform” with two friends, according to her lawyers. Washington Post(Oct 21, 2016) v indulge in horseplay Enough horsing around--let's get back to work! Syn|Hyper fool, fool around jest, joke tell a joke; speak humorously playbe at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children |
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