英语词汇man on the horse的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	man on the horse
词源	man on the horse. We know that this expression meaning “the person in authority or in charge” is an Americanism, but it is first recorded in England. In 1887 a British newspaper writer noted: “The man on the horse . . . to use the picturesque Amer- ican phrase, is not now Lord Salisbury.” No doubt the expres- sion dates back at least 20 years earlier, perhaps to Civil War days.
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