Phrases that get up your nose?

I read a hilarious post recently where somebody had 'brought' a new (horse, hat etc) and somebody replied 'Cool ! Where did you bruy it from ?' HoHoHo
 
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''sharp'' always confuses me. What does this even mean? makes it sound like you are going to get on a razor blade :P

I also don't like 'spooky' I would say 'alert' lol
 
huskydamage said:
''sharp'' always confuses me. What does this even mean? makes it sound like you are going to get on a razor blade :P
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I have a 30yo Dartmoor who is quiet as a lamb, but 'sharp' in harness. It means if you so much as twitch a finger, he's taken a right angle turn in canter, faster than you can correct him. He's obedient, and light mouthed, but, well, just 'sharp'. If you didn't mean it, it's too late. He's too old for scurry now (would have been amazing), but I no longer drive him on the road. I'm not up to it!
 
Is this back again? I love this thread. There are so many phrases I hate if I started I'd never stop! I'll risk it as this happened to me at the weekend.

I was out hacking with a couple of friends from the yard (ours is a geldings only yard) and came across two people on mares who we sort of know and they joined us for a bit. My boy isn't used to seeing the ladies so got a bit excited and was showing off. I totally ignoe this behaviour from him as it's the best way to calm him down again. We went round a corner which meant we were heading in the general direction of home and I wasn't really concentrating so he started to canter. He'd probably managed 5 or 6 strides and about 20 yards before I got my act together and stopped him. When we got back to the yard one of the girls with me was telling everybody who'd listen that he'd bolted with me. No he didn't, he was a little wound up and took himself off a pace he wanted until I corrected him. Bolting is entirely different and very dangerous, I would not be sitting on a horse who bolted, let alone trundling along on the buckle chatting to friends!
 
Haha, love that this is still cropping up so many months later! I'm sure I've developed a few new ones in that time... main one being 'he just loves a fuss being made of him' used to describe a spoilt brat with no sense of personal space who will kick the door down if he's not being constantly patted/fed!
 
I hate the word "groundwork" haven't seen it on HH (maybe because I avoid those topics) but on dutch forums whenever a horse is basically respectless to the handler (usually newby's to horseownership ask the question) the respond they get is you should do groundwork.

Never understood what groundwork actually is, but I gather basically being able to lead a horse without getting your feet stamped on, and standing still and such. But ofcourse, never hit a horse !! no, do clicker training instead !!

then when explaining that horses actually respond to bodylanguage (just the standing tall and being decisive; a LEADER and such) and that they can actually be corrected by a good shout or a quick enough slap ont he nose if they bite....they are about to call the animal cops on you
 
huskydamage said:
''sharp'' always confuses me. What does this even mean? makes it sound like you are going to get on a razor blade :P

I also don't like 'spooky' I would say 'alert' lol
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I had never heard "sharp" until this forum. Here we would probably use"sensitive" as being the closest description.
 
Sharp is really well used where I am (I use it quite often) to describe something quite quick to become unsettled or overreact, mainly competition horses when they're really fit

I don't like
Always wins the diesel money

But I do like when someone refers to something smart as a 'proper toy'... said by certain people in a certain way & you know they're well impressed!
 
The main things that drive me nuts are people making spelling mistakes in adverts when they are trying come across as someone with soooo much knowledge. A few examples...
Skrewbold in colour; Its bloody SKEWBALD!
Kimberwick bits; no. It's a kimblewick
Bridal; its not getting married, it's a bridle... You know, the strappy leather thing that goes on its face
It's not that I am anti people who are generally not great at spelling, it's when they are specifically horsey words that they MUST have come across a million times in print, or are clearly pronouncing wrong, never mind spelling, lol!

Also, where people say in adverts that things have so much potential "in the right hands" to do x, y or z, when quite clearly it is a rubbish horse, advertised for £150 that even the likes of Carl Hester couldn't make trot in a straight line. Just sell the horse as what it is: it's not going to dressage or go to HOYS and win in showing or jumping or go around badminton, it just is what it is...

Hmmm what else... oh, people advertising horses by some stallion no one has ever heard of and then listing every other horse that it is so distantly related to as evidence of its greatness.

Finally, when adverts say "must go by this weekend" and it's Thursday. I see that so often. Why not advertise sooner? Or better still, wait for a nice home for your horse where it is wanted and will be loved. Not just the first person who responds to your ad (which btw always send to be the same person on the local horsey FB pages, am I the only who spots this obvious dealer?!)

Phew. Rant over. I can go to bed feeling cleansed of my anger at ignorant horsey people and return to my Ivory tower to sleep :) night all!
 
Gingersmum said:
Etc is etc surely ? Not ect which is seen everywhere nowadays !
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Late to the game, but this is something I have seen and thought it was just a typo... until I saw it on several different posts by different people.

Not a pet hate, but obvious loss of pronunciation, et cetera becoming eck setara or ect, I guess.

Is this the evolution of language?
 
"Jumping out of his/her skin" - the imagination runs riot on this one.
Am I the only one who will not respond to a badly spelt ad? Or text speak. With spell check available it seems pure laziness. Obvious typos forgiven (or perhaps I should say "typing errors")
 
Calling a horse, who just at that time is looking a irregular or slightly lame, 'unsound'. I know it's common, but I always think of 'unsound' as a horse who is perpetually showing a degree of lameness, or can only sustain short periods of not being lame. I guess it get's up my nose a bit when you've hopped on your 100% all the time sound horse, to find it's irregular, and someone hollers across the yard/arena/showgrounds "your horse is unsound' :p why not just say it looks lame?
 
I would always say my sect d is quirky, it's got nothing to with him being ridden it's just his character always no matter who rides him or handles him. He remains quirky when he is out the field with his little herd. Thankfully I don't think I use many if these phrases other than quirky! The
 
One that is (probably slightly irrationally) starting to irritate me as I'm looking at 7.5 ton horseboxes is 'ideal ladies lorry'.

What exactly does that mean, as there's rarely any explanation in the ad as to WHY it is a ladies lorry?!
 
SpottyMare said:
One that is (probably slightly irrationally) starting to irritate me as I'm looking at 7.5 ton horseboxes is 'ideal ladies lorry'.

What exactly does that mean, as there's rarely any explanation in the ad as to WHY it is a ladies lorry?!
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The only thing i would find ideal for a 'ladies lorry' would be a ramp that was really light- or self lifting!! But still i too dont get what makes it a ladies lorry!
 
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