‘Ethan laughs a long horse laugh that is entirely inappropriate but fits with his racism.’
‘When I first heard of it I thought of old Lucy who (so I was told) used to do it in the recreation ground for half-a-crown, and her likely horse laugh: ‘Oh, I wouldn't call it work, dearie’.’
‘In places like Riyadh and Moscow and Oslo and Mexico City and Vienna - where OPEC and other oil producers are meeting to set oil prices - the very notion of U.S. antitrust principles must be good for a horse laugh.’
‘As for McChesney's ‘good journalism is bad business’ formula, I can only offer a horse laugh.’
‘Ask anybody who works for a big media company how much cooperation they get from their corporate cousins, and you'll be greeted by a horse laugh.’
‘But on the other hand, we then got to thinking about the great American journalist H L Menkin who once said that, a good horse laugh is worth 1000 syllogisms, and we're pretty big on the syllogisms.’
‘The notion that presidents and prime ministers are altruistic social planners will draw a horse laugh from most economists.’
‘We went for the horse laugh on this one, so we decided we would have Project Steve.’
‘Instead of painted blondes on the arms of fat cats, there sat Bret Easton Ellis at a nearby table, laughing big horse laughs with his funky, downtown retinue.’
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