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horns
The feelers of a snail. Hence the proverb, To pull in the horns, To repress one's ardor.--Johnson. I...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
To draw in one's horns; to retract an assertion through fear: metaphor borrowed from a snail, who on the apprehension of danger, draws in his horns, and retires to his shell.
The feelers of a snail. Hence the proverb, To pull in the horns, To repress one's ardor.--Johnson. I...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.