India, June 22 -- Take a horse to water, horse-trading, hold your horses. given the interdependence we once had with these majestic beasts, it is no surprise that our language embraced them too. There are, in fact, horses hidden in a number of phrases where one wouldn't expect them to be. Riding and the age of chivalry (roughly the medieval period, from the 12th to 15th centuries) gave us "full tilt", for instance. Tilting was an early name for jousting while on horseback. The aim was not so much to pierce the opponent's armour as to spook his horse so that he would be unsaddled. This era also gave us "high and mighty", meaning "to act with a self-importance one likely hasn't earned". This one dates to the 1400s, when only the wealthiest an...