Idiom
pale rider
Meaning
Death, the Grim Reaper or angel of death; and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The old stories describe death as a pale rider.”
“In the ancient prophecy, the arrival of the pale rider signals the end of the world.”
“The villagers watched the horizon with dread, fearing that the pale rider had finally come to claim the souls of the fallen.”
Examples
simple
“The old stories describe death as a pale rider.”
contextual
“In the ancient prophecy, the arrival of the pale rider signals the end of the world.”
complex
“The villagers watched the horizon with dread, fearing that the pale rider had finally come to claim the souls of the fallen.”
Origin
A reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in which the rider of a pale horse is Death.
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