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  • Forget the old Party war-horses who have grown into a sense of entitlement -- help us to get a few more of them replaced with fresh minds and fresh ideas to match your own.

    Don't Look Now, Mr. President 2009

  • 'Skittles' speaks of a fashionable tailor as being 'one of the old war-horses of the trade.'

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Forget the old Party war-horses who have grown into a sense of entitlement -- help us to get a few more of them replaced with fresh minds and fresh ideas to match your own. '

    Don't Look Now, Mr. President 2009

  • 'Skittles' speaks of a fashionable tailor as being 'one of the old war-horses of the trade.'

    The tailors and the Lady 2009

  • But if you think that the new season will only be about repeating war-horses, you'd better think again, fast.

    LPO 08-09 season Jessica 2008

  • We read in the Bible of war-horses; of horses drawing chariots.

    Archive 2008-08-17 papabear 2008

  • You can see the thinking behind this redraft for The Old Crowd - experienced hands in a time of trouble; dogged war-horses who can take the fight to the Tories, and all that.

    The Old Crowd 2008

  • He rides around with no one new…all the old war-horses of the past…including the Kennedys!

    Clinton’s Persistence Could Help Obama - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Glendinning almost rejoiced when he saw that the last misery of life was over, and that the hoofs of the war-horses, amongst which he was compelled to leave her, could only injure and deface a senseless corpse.

    The Monastery 2008

  • I envy you that you get to see these atypicals; out here we only get the old war-horses.

    DesignerBlog Will 2008

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