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Dead horse

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an expression applied to a debt for wages paid in advance.

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The object at his feet resolved itself into a dead horse, and at a right angle across the animal's neck lay a dead man, face upward in the moonlight.
Present At A Hanging And Other Ghost Stories by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
But a real horse is alive, and trots and prances and eats oats, while this is nothing more than a dead horse, made of wood, and used to saw logs upon.
The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
Tarzan stepped over the dead horse and the girl lying behind him gazed in wide-eyed astonishment at the handsome figure driving an angry lion deliberately from its kill.
Tarzan the Untamed by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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