Given that he seems to be posting from a British university, he very well *could* have a bursar under his saddle.
Yes. But since he is posting from Australia, it is probably a burr.
I have often puzzled over this metaphor, even while using it. Notice that, unlike your “…wild hare…” [trying to be a bit delicate, here], it actually speaks to the restlessness of the horse, rather than the rider. So, to have a burr under one’s saddle, is to be riding an uncontrollable horse, not to be out of control oneself. So, technically, the republican party has a burr under its saddle but trump has a wild hare, etc. [trying to be delicate, here]. Still, to have a rider with a wild hare, on a horse with a burr under its saddle, is, well, just bad government.
But I don’t know how it is in Australia.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> We haven't heard a lot of from you, lately. Any bursr do you under
> your saddle you'ld like to talk about?
Given that he seems to be posting from a British university, he very well *could* have a bursar under his saddle.
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