get a charley horse
get a charley horse
To get a painful muscle spasm that most commonly occurs in the legs. (The term "charley horse" is thought to have originated from baseball slang.) After spending all day on my feet, I got a charley horse in my leg that was so painful, I had to sit down for a while and rest.
See also: charley, get, horse
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- have a charley horse
- Charley
- charley horse
- be a bed of nails
- a bed of nails
- salt in the/(one's) wound(s)
- learn (something) the hard way
- learn the hard way
- be better off dead
- find (something) out the hard way