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idiomhornsdraw/pull in your horns BrEBrEto start to spend less money or behave more carefully, in order to avoid problems or failure:It was not only small businesses that had to pull in their horns because of the recession, larger companies were also affected.When the broadcasting standards authority tried to close down the station, we had to decide whether to draw our horns in, or to fight it out.lock horns (with sb)to strongly disagree with someone about a particular subject:Yoko Ono locked horns with John Lennon's first wife over the best way to celebrate what would have been Lennon's fiftieth birthday.The two telephone companies locked horns earlier this year, when Telcom accused its biggest rival of unfairly monopolizing the market.be on the horns of a dilemmato not know which of two choices to make, because both seem very difficult or unpleasant:The new government finds itself on the horns of a dilemma: it must stop the producing cocaine, but it needs the large amounts of money created by the drugs industry. Note This idiom comes from the idea that an angry bull will throw you, whichever horn you try to hold onto.
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horn1. n. the nose. He scratched his horn with his pencil and opened his mouth to speak. 2. n. the telephone. She’s on the horn now. What’ll I tell her? 3. tv. to sniff or snort a narcotic. (Drugs.) Ernie horned a line and paused for a minute. - all horns and rattles
- around the horn
- be on the horn
- be on the horns of a dilemma
- blow (one's) own horn
- blow one’s own horn
- blow one's own horn
- blow one's own horn/trumpet, to
- blow own horn
- blow your own horn
- chrome horn
- come out the little end of the horn
- draw in (one's) horns
- draw in horns and pull in horns
- draw in your horns
- draw/pull in one's horns, to
- draw/pull in your horns
- get on the horn
- give (someone) the horn
- grab the bull by its horns
- grab the bull by the horns
- greenhorn
- haul in (one's) horns
- have the horn
- horn
- horn in
- horn in on
- horn in on (something)
- horns of a dilemma, on the
- lock horns
- lock horns with, to
- make a spoon or spoil a horn
- make horns at
- mess with the bull and you get the horns
- on the horn
- on the horns of a dilemma
- pull in (one's) horns
- pull in one's horns
- pull in your horns
- show (one's) horns
- take the bull by its horns
- take the bull by the horns
- take the bull by the horns, to
- the horns of a dilemma
- toot (one's) own horn
- toot one’s own horn
- wear the horns
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