Meaning of ride a horse foaled by an acorn | Babel Free

Definitions

To be hanged on the gallows.

obsolete, slang

Examples

“You'll ride on a horſe that was foal'd of an acron. That is; the gallows.”

“"What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."”

“Fourteen, sir. No age to be riding a horse foaled by an acorn, I can tell you.”

“A sheep stealer, the mother told the child... and now the man twisted there, riding a horse foaled by an acorn, as the saying went, while the fat Welsh sheep in safety grazed the green pasture all around.”

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