"The Horse You Rode In On"

[Mark A. Mandel]

In reply to my post of hits for "horse it rode in on", Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM> says:
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May I be pardoned for saying, with the grim satisfaction of the weary and a
/ sup'soN / (damned cedillas) of insufferable pride, that searches of
Google, Google Books, and Google Groups don't often turn up antedatings of
current HDAS entries.

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I wasn't looking for antedates of the basic idiom. My search for and post of
hits for "horse *it* rode in on" (emph. added) was in response to Scot
LaFaive's comment

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 I also found this variation: "Fuck your self-sufficiency and the
horse you rode in on." I found it interesting because I'm not sure I've
heard heard or seen it without the object of "fuck" being a person, and
especially not an abstract noun.

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