horseback opinion

noun

An opinion given without thorough consideration or a firm basis, often used in a casual or speculative way.

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Meanings

nounhorseback opinion (plural horseback opinions)

plural horseback opinions

  1. idiomaticinformalAn opinion given without thorough consideration or a firm basis, often used in a casual or speculative way.

    My sister gives it as a horseback opinion that she'd been engaged to this fellow nearly eight months.

    1903, Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy, A Narrative of the Old Trail Days, page 72
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