Pronounced: EK-suh-juht, adj
Notes: I’ve run across this word in many places, but I didn’t get the meaning right
Yesterday’s phrase
The phrase wheel horse is
- someone responsible and diligent, especially one who bears the biggest share of burden in a group
- a horse harnessed closest to the front wheel(s) of a carriage
First usage
Our phrase came into English in the early 1700s
Background / Comments
Our phrase comes from the two words “wheel” and “horse”, and thus, the second definition is the original definition. The horse nearest the wheels does most of the pulling work (I didn’t know this; I assumed all of horses had a roughly equal amount of work), so the first definition came about over time.
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