black rider

black rider

"Famine," the third of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, so named for the black horse upon which it rides. The food shortages are at a critical level, as if the black rider has swept through the country and demolished our fields and supplies.
See also: black, rider
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • rider
  • eat like a horse
  • each way
  • get on (one's) horse
  • get on horse
  • get on one’s horse
  • road apple
  • back the wrong horse
  • rush (one's) fences
  • rush your fences
References in classic literature
Ere long the car was once more grazing the soil, and Al-Hadji's black riders rushed toward it; but, as frequently happens in like cases, the balloon had scarcely touched the surface ere it rebounded, and only came down again a mile away.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
St George's horses had a white cloak and the Black Rider's horse was dressed in black.
Knights take over town centre; St George rides in for celebration
Next evening I watched the six o'clock news on BBC1 and there was not a word about the 1,000 Guineas, despite Sean Levey creating a bit of history by becoming the first black rider to partner a Classic winner in Britain.
A sad lack of coverage
BILLED AS A "MUSICAL FABLE," THE BLACK RIDER: The Casting of the Magic Bullets tells of a man who makes a bargain with the devil to marry the woman he loves.
'Black Rider' Rides Again
So out on the dusty plains, his herd of titles included Kid Colt Outlaw and Two-Gun Kid, Ringo Kid and Rawhide Kid -- and, oh, Black Rider and Gunsmoke Western.
Marvel Comics book offers modern mythology
Danquart, whose "Black Rider'' won the 1993 short movie Oscar, told the AP the fact that a German director has made a story about a Jewish boy in the Holocaust that opens in Poland is a "sign of the new time, of a Europe that has come together ...
Movie on boy's Holocaust fate premieres in Poland
NEWCASTLE: 2.10 Coin Broker, 2.40 Artful Prince, 3.15 Waveguide, 3.50 Moral Issue, 4.25 Aneedh, 5.00 Black Rider, 5.30 Pivotal Prospect, 6.00 Edith Anne.
TODAY'S TIPS
NAOMI MATTHEW: 2.10 Coin Broker, 2.40 Artful Prince, 3.15 Waveguide, 3.50 Moral Issue, 4.25 Aneedh, 5.00 Black Rider, 5.30 Pivotal Prospect, 6.00 Edith Anne.
Tawhid looks too good to ignore in Listed company
CHESTER 2.15 Weisse Socken 2.50 Clearing 3.25 Majestic Myles 4.00 Sir Maximilian 4.35 Deira Phantom 5.10 Livia's Dream 5.45 Black Rider. HAMILTON 6.40 Memory Styx 7.15 Lexington Place 7.50 Secret Advice 8.20 Saxonette 8.50 Special Meaning 9.20 Bitusa.
THE MAIL'S TOP TIPS
The colt's jockey, Kevin Krigger, had been vying to become the first black rider to win the race since 1902.
Orb wins 139th Kentucky Derby
SOUTHWELL: 1.40 Peace In Our Time, 2.10 Boy The Bell, 2.40 Stand Guard, 3.10 Black Rider, 3.40 AUBRIETIA (NAP), 4.10 Una Bella Cosa, 4.40 Sweet Liberta.
Aubrietia still looks ahead of the assessor
Black Rider can improve on a promising second as he lines up in the coral.co.uk Mobile Casino Median Auction Maiden Stakes.
Don''t Desert sharp vision
WOLVERHAMPTON: 4.30 Beach Candy, 5.00 Priestley's Reward, 5.30 Black Rider, 6.00 Rakticate, 6.30 Yourinthewill, 7.00 DESERT VISION (NAP), 7.30 Monsieur Pontaven.
Desert Vision has winning look
The strategy of this journey in 1961 was to have a sitting arrangement of at least one interracial pair, one black rider sitting up front and the rest would sit spread over in the bus.
How Freedom Riders made it 50 years ago?
Fred Whitfield, first black rider to win a world title in
Legacy of the American West: Indian cowboys, black cowboys, and vaqueros