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The GREY mare is the better horse
The wife rules, or is more competent than, the husband. Cf.
1529
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Dialogue of Images
III. v. Here were we fallen in a grete questyon of the law, whyther the gray mare be the better horse .. or whither he haue a wyse face or not that loketh as lyke a foole as an ewe loketh lyke a shepe.
1546
Dialogue of Proverbs
II. iv. G4
The grey mare is the better hors.
1664
Hudibras
II. ii. 117
A Riding [charivari], us'd of Course, When the
Grey Mare's the better Horse
. When o're the Breeches greedy
Women
Fight, to extend their vast
Dominion
.
1836
Clockmaker
1st Ser. xxi.
You can see with half an eye that the ‘grey mare is the better horse here.’
1906
Man of Property
I. vi.
D'you think he knows his own mind? He seems to me a poor thing. I should say the gray mare was the better horse!
1981
Flora Annie Steel
vii.
She did not wish it to seem, to quote an old fashioned expression, that the grey mare was the better horse … She strove to avoid prejudicing her husband's position.
wives and husbands
1529
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Dialogue of Images
III. v. Here were we fallen in a grete questyon of the law, whyther the gray mare be the better horse .. or whither he haue a wyse face or not that loketh as lyke a foole as an ewe loketh lyke a shepe.
1546Dialogue of Proverbs
II. iv. G4
The grey mare is the better hors.
1664
Hudibras
II. ii. 117
A Riding [charivari], us'd of Course, When the
Grey Mare's the better Horse
. When o're the Breeches greedy
Women
Fight, to extend their vast
Dominion
.
1836
Clockmaker
1st Ser. xxi.
You can see with half an eye that the ‘grey mare is the better horse here.’
1906
Man of Property
I. vi.
D'you think he knows his own mind? He seems to me a poor thing. I should say the gray mare was the better horse!
1981
Flora Annie Steel
vii.
She did not wish it to seem, to quote an old fashioned expression, that the grey mare was the better horse … She strove to avoid prejudicing her husband's position.
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