shire horse in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for shire horse in the English»Bulgarian Dictionary

shire horse N

shire horse

порода едър кон

Translations for shire horse in the English»Bulgarian Dictionary

shire [ˈʃaɪə, Am ˈʃaɪɚ] N

shire

графство nt (административна единица в Англия)

horse [hɔːs, Am hɔːrs] N zool, SPORTS

horse

кон m

to ride a horse

яздя кон

to put the cart before the horse

впрягам колата пред конете prov

to put the cart before the horse

обръщам нещата наопаки

to flog a dead horse

наливам от пусто в празно

to be on one's high horse inf

държа се надменно

to eat like a horse

ям като разпран

to hold one's horses inf

въздържам се

to change horses (in) midstream

правя излишни промени в неудобен момент

to get sth straight from the horse's mouth

черпя сведения направо от източника

don't look a gift horse in the mouth prov

на харизан кон зъбите не се гледат prov

you can take a horse to water but you can't make him drink prov

насила хубост не става prov

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

It's the shire horse in this paddock, with heaps of power for more demanding users.

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A shiny fake shire horse trundles across the view, gently mocking the landscape's picturesqueness; while an enormous fat gorilla sits squarely in the middle of the lake.

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Prince the shire horse leans his head over the stable door.

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But as mechanisation took over, the shire horse population has gone into near-terminal decline.

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Among other projects, his shire horses have partnered with charities working with children being bullied and people with autism.

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The two shire horses used were covered almost entirely with flowers and were illuminated by electric lights.

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So the park keepers hitched their lawnmowers to shire horses and got mowing.

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The industrial revolution couldn't have started if shire horses had not been working on the docks.

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In the 1920s however, most breweries decided to put their shire horses out to grass and switch to motor transport.

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In keeping with this sense of history and tradition, the brewery keeps a small team of dapple-grey shire horses.

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