hold your horses
Wait a moment
Hold your horses is an informal command to wait, slow down, or be patient.
The expression evokes reining in eager horses before they bolt.
It's often used when someone is rushing ahead or jumping to conclusions: Hold your horses—I haven't finished explaining yet.
- waitDelay until later
- just a minuteRequest for brief patience
- patienceCalm during delays
- slow downReduce pace or speed
- whoaCommand to stop
one moment please · not so fast · stop · pump the brakes · pause · easy · easy does it · calm · relax · steady · rein · rein it in · bridle · gallop · eager · impatient · rushing · hasty
- Animal Idiomsblind as a bat, brave as a lion, busy bee, copycat, eats like a bird
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, till the cows come home, buy the farm, put out to pasture
- folk sayingsproverb, adage, maxim, folk saying, old saying
- Horse Idiomsworkhorse, horseplay, one-trick pony, pony up, horsepower
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
- Old Idiomsbeyond the pale, hue and cry, scot-free, knight in shining armor, eat humble pie
urgency/action imperative
hold your horseshurry up
Command to accelerate
get a move on · step on it · go for it · chop chop · shake a leg
permission/prohibition
hold your horsesgo ahead
Permission to begin
go for it · be my guest · fire away · have at it · knock yourself out
hold, holds, holding, holder, holders, beholden, behold, your, yours