shanks' pony

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. One's feet or legs, regarded as a means of transport. Commonwealth,idiomatic,uncountable
    — When we pointed out that we cared nothing, absolutely nothing, for convention, and would go in quest of the gods “on Shanks′ pony,” Anqui utterly mistook our meaning and had a pony in waiting for us when the hour came for leaving! This we dismissed after attempting to make clear our meaning.

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词源

Believed to be of Scottish origin, from shanks' nag (shanks-naig, attested 1774).
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