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Old 10-03-2015, 04:05 PM
 
Location: Elsewhere
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Good word. I also like the word "renegade".
So do I, and I like the Ambassadors' song, "Renegades" that's playing on the radio and is used in a car commercial.
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Old 10-03-2015, 10:32 PM
 
Location: Mid-Atlantic
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"She looks rode hard and put up wet."

"He's all hat and no cattle."

"She lies like a rug on the floor."

"He'd rather cross the street and tell a lie than stand on the sidewalk and tell the truth." A variation of that is "He'd rather climb a tree and tell a lie than stand on the ground and tell the truth."
I always heard, "Rode hard and hung up to dry." Same thing, really.
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Old 10-04-2015, 12:00 AM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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Inkling
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Old 10-04-2015, 12:24 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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I always heard, "Rode hard and hung up to dry." Same thing, really.
Interesting. I guess it means the same thing, but I'm wondering how that phrase makes sense! How would you hang up a horse to dry? Do you know what they were talking about hanging up to dry? I'm very confused!
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Old 10-04-2015, 06:30 PM
 
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Interesting. I guess it means the same thing, but I'm wondering how that phrase makes sense! How would you hang up a horse to dry? Do you know what they were talking about hanging up to dry? I'm very confused!
It refers to a woman who has had many sex partners and is wet from all of them.
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Old 10-05-2015, 08:45 AM
 
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Interesting. I guess it means the same thing, but I'm wondering how that phrase makes sense! How would you hang up a horse to dry? Do you know what they were talking about hanging up to dry? I'm very confused!
I had never heard that phrase until just this year when I read it in a book. The exact phrase was something like, "Most nights she was rode hard and put away wet". It stuck with me because of its terse descriptive language.
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Old 10-05-2015, 05:27 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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Rah Rah Ree, Kick'em in the knee, rah rah ree................
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Old 10-05-2015, 08:02 PM
 
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Sis Boom Bah
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Old 10-06-2015, 02:36 PM
 
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I had never heard that phrase until just this year when I read it in a book. The exact phrase was something like, "Most nights she was rode hard and put away wet". It stuck with me because of its terse descriptive language.
Yes, it is an awesome phrase!

"Rode hard and put up wet" makes sense because it's something you do to a horse, so it's a play on a phrase about a horse. "Rode hard and hung out to dry" confuses me because I've never heard that phrase associated with a horse but I guess it could be used in that sense.

The fun of the phrase "rode hard and put up wet," is that it's an actual phrase describing a way a horse is poorly treated, but it fits some people, especially some women, very aptly.
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Old 10-06-2015, 04:11 PM
 
Location: Covington County, Alabama
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Why that old alley cat
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