In addition to metaphors, there are some other definitions of cattle and horses in Chinese:
1. Cattle and horses themselves: Cattle and horses are two kinds of mammals, belonging to Bovidae and Equidae respectively. They are widely used in agricultural production, transportation and other fields.
2, heavy work: Sometimes people will use "cattle and horses" to describe people who are engaged in manual labor or hard work, indicating that their work is very hard and tired.
3. unimportant things: on some occasions, "cattle and horses" will be used to describe some unimportant and trivial things, indicating contempt or indifference.
4. Internet language: On the Internet, the word "ox and horse" is sometimes used to describe that some people's behaviors or attitudes are very excessive and out of line, which makes people feel dissatisfied or angry.
It should be noted that the word "ox and horse" is often derogatory and ridiculous when used, and attention should be paid to occasions and objects when used.
Extended knowledge
Cow-horse related sentences:
1, farmers, like cattle and horses, work in the fields all day, silently paying hard sweat, just to harvest a bumper harvest.
In this city, many people live like cattle and horses, running around and struggling for survival every day.
Those construction workers worked hard to carry building materials like cattle and horses. In order to finish the construction task on time, they worked tirelessly.
In feudal society, the working people lived a life inferior to that of cattle and horses. They not only have to bear heavy taxes, but also suffer from all kinds of exploitation and oppression.
Although the living conditions of cattle and horses cultivated in the farmland are difficult, they still work tirelessly in order to make their owners get a bumper harvest of food.
These sentences all use the phrase "ox and horse", emphasizing the hard work people are engaged in and the helplessness forced by life.