Definition of Reins

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Definition of Reins
	Reins The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins. The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are. Related Definitions: Also, And, Are, Because, Body, Called, Formerly, Have, In, Inward, Kidneys, Of, Part, Region, Seat, So, Supposed, The, Their, To, Where

Reins Quotations

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?
Katie Price

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
Jensen Ackles

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
Augustus Hare

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
Lytton Strachey

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
Jim Capaldi

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
Chaka Khan

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
Shelley Long

Reins Translations

reins in Latin is frenum

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