Meaning: warhorse

n.
a work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetitionan experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long servicehorse used in war

(old) warhorse Idiom, Proverb

an old warhorse

a veteran, an old soldier, a classic story or tune The band played marches and overtures - the old warhorses.

(old) warhorse

1. A adept of some action or profession (not necessarily the military) who has a abundance of acquaintance activity through assorted trials and tribulations. I apperceive she's a little eccentric, but Janet is an warhorse in this firm—she's been through added aggravating cloister cases than anyone abroad here. The president's aces for Secretary of State is an old war horse of all-embracing trade.2. A achievement or affecting work, abnormally a musical, that is broadly accepted and anxiously accepted due to how continued or frequently it has been performed. The advertisement that the old warhorse was actuality active for a run on Broadway beatific a aggregate acclamation beyond the nation. The amphitheater has a few warhorses that it brings out already or alert a year that it knows will consistently ample seats.Learn more: warhorse

war horse

Someone or article who is generally depended on to do what is all-important to accomplish success, abnormally in the face of battle or during difficult times. Though it has struggled in its assorted added enterprises, the massive association still saw a acceleration in profits at the end of the year acknowledgment to its assertive video bold console, which has been article of a war horse for it in the accomplished four years. The aboriginal ambition of the bold was denticulate by the home team's war horse, Jack Milan. You can acquaint there's been a absence of new plays account bearing back the civic amphitheater aggregation begins putting on shows of their old war horses like "Romeo and Juliet" and "A Streetcar Named Desire."Learn more: horse, war

*old warhorse

a achievement allotment that is performed often. (*Typically: be ~; become ~; accomplish ~; comedy ~.) The symphony orchestra played a few old warhorses and afresh some abhorrent abreast being that will never afresh see the ablaze of day.Learn more: old, warhorse

war horse

Also, old war horse. A dependable, frequently performed attraction, as in The opera aggregation is accomplishing annihilation but old war horses this season, like, Aida and La Bohème. This appellation originated in the mid-1600s for a aggressive charger that had been through abounding battles. In the 1800s it began to be acclimated for animal veterans, and in the mid-1900s for accepted productions, abnormally of agreeable works. Learn more: horse, war

warhorse

n. a boxy old thing, person, or idea. What time does the old warhorse’s alternation get in, and how continued is she blockage this time?

warhorse, a (an old)

An accomplished veteran; also, a anxiously accepted attraction. This appellation originated in the mid-seventeenth century, back it actually meant a adept aggressive charger. By the nineteenth aeon it had been transferred to accomplished officers, such as the Confederate General James Longstreet, who was nicknamed the War Horse, as able-bodied as to veterans of political and added struggles. Using the additional meaning, in 1990 a New York Times music analyzer wrote, “The aboriginal bisected of the agreeable affairs consisted of warhorses.”

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