in the saddle
Meaning
in the saddle
Synonym of in control
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Examples
No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.
I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.
Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle ... There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for.
Sitting securely in the saddle.
Wedlock rides in the saddle and repentance on the crupper.