Idiom
red rider
Meaning
War, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The red rider brings war to the land.”
“In the ancient story, the red rider appears on the horizon to signal the start of a great conflict.”
“The prophecy describes the red rider as a harbinger of global strife, destined to strip peace from the earth and incite humanity toward total destruction.”
Examples
simple
“The red rider brings war to the land.”
contextual
“In the ancient story, the red rider appears on the horizon to signal the start of a great conflict.”
complex
“The prophecy describes the red rider as a harbinger of global strife, destined to strip peace from the earth and incite humanity toward total destruction.”
Origin
The term derives from a reference to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, in which the rider of the red horse represents War.
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