What does 'From the horse's mouth' mean?
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If you hear something from the horse's mouth, you hear it directly from the person concerned or responsible.
- Category: Animals
Idioms similar to 'From the horse's mouth'
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Eat like a horse
- Could eat a horse
- Stalking horse
- Charley horse
- Healthy as a horse
- Dark horse
- Horse trading
- On your high horse
- Horse of a different color
- Beating a dead horse
- Short horse soon curried
- Putting the cart before the horse
- Flogging a dead horse
- Back the wrong horse
- Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
- Close the stable door after the horse has bolted
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
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