What does four-in-hand mean?
Four-in-hand means A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver..
‘I must see him!’ he exclaimed; but at that moment the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came between, and when it had left the space clear, the carriage had swept out of the Park.
Judge Short had gone to town, and Farrar was off for a three days' cruise up the lake. I was bitterly regretting I had not gone with him when the distant notes of a coach horn reached my ear, and I descried a four-in-hand winding its way up the inn road from the direction of Mohair.
He wore a black frock coat and light trousers, his cravat a gray four-in-hand.
Use four-in-hand when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Four-in-hand means A carriage drawn by four horses controlled by one driver..
Common synonyms include coach-and-four, schoolboy knot, coach.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
‘I must see him!’ he exclaimed; but at that moment the Duke of Berwick's four-in-hand came between, and when it had left the space clear, the carriage had swept out of the Park.
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