hold your horses
1. Not so fast
2. Wait a moment
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Main Entry: ↑horse
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used for telling someone to wait before doing something
Thesaurus: ways of telling or asking someone to waitsynonym
Main entry: horse
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Main Entry: ↑hold
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hold your horses
informal
— used to tell someone to slow down, stop, or wait for a short time
“Hurry up. We need to get going.” “Hold your horses. I'll be ready in a minute.”
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Main Entry: ↑horse
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hold your ˈhorses idiom
(informal) used to tell sb that they should wait a moment and not be so excited that they take action without thinking about it first
Useful english dictionary. 2012.