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double harness
noun
- harness for a pair of horses.
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of double harness1
Idioms and Phrases
- in double harness, Informal. married.
Example Sentences
Won’t you just hitch up alongside of me and let us go down the long road together, driving in double harness?’
From as far away as Newton, Ross Milton and Sam Gardiner were able to collect enough for a set of double harness and a wagon; one man brought over a plow; others brought in loads of grain and hay for summer feeding.
In 1904 he published Double Harness, and in 1905 A Servant of the Public, two novels of modern society, containing somewhat cynical pictures of the condition of marriage.
Insatiably curious, he yet contrived to drive his chimeras in double harness and safely.
And there is one still living--chiefly on the fact--who once was last in a three-legged race in double harness with a Duke.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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