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Warhorse

noun

A work of art (composition or drama) that is part of the standard repertory but has become hackneyed from much repetition.

An experienced person who has been through many battles; someone who has given long service. Synonyms: old-timer, old hand, old stager, oldtimer, stager, veteran.

Horse used in war.

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"Warhorse" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the Plains by ox team. She kissed the bullet hole in it, made in the fight at Little Meadow, as she kissed her father's sword, the while she visioned him, as she always did, astride his roan warhorse. With the old religious awe, she pored over her mother's poems in the scrap-book, and clasped her mother's red satin Spanish girdle about her in a farewell embrace. She unpacked the scrap-book in order to gaze a last time at the wood engraving of the Vikings, sword in hand, leaping ...

— The Valley of the Moon • Jack London

... mad. It was the equilibrium of a man behind madly rushing horses, seeming to stoop this way and to sway that, yet in every attitude having the grace of statuary and the accuracy of arithmetic. The Church in its early days went fierce and fast with any warhorse; yet it is utterly unhistoric to say that she merely went mad along one idea, like a vulgar fanaticism. She swerved to left and right, so exactly as to avoid enormous obstacles. She left on one hand the huge bulk of Arianism, ...

— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... my dear old warhorse," I murmured, turning my face toward the wall. "There is a nice little surprise party ...

— Arms and the Woman • Harold MacGrath