Idiom
black rider
Meaning
Famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The ancient story describes the black rider bringing hunger to the land.”
“In the old prophecy, the black rider appears during times of great drought and famine.”
“The villagers trembled as the dark clouds gathered, fearing the arrival of the black rider would signal the end of their harvest.”
Examples
simple
“The ancient story describes the black rider bringing hunger to the land.”
contextual
“In the old prophecy, the black rider appears during times of great drought and famine.”
complex
“The villagers trembled as the dark clouds gathered, fearing the arrival of the black rider would signal the end of their harvest.”
Origin
From the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in which the rider of the black horse represents Famine.
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