SHANKS'S PONY


Meaning of SHANKS'S PONY in English

( N. Amer. also Shanks's mare )

■ noun one's own legs as a means of conveyance.

Origin

C18: first recorded as shanks-nag in R. Fergusson's Poems (1785).

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