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The illusion of control, held in your hands, trusted by a thousand pounds of horse.
means A strap of leather fastened to a bit, used to steer or check a horse — and by extension, anything used to guide or restrain.
from From Old French 'rene,' tracing back to Vulgar Latin 'retina' (meaning 'that which holds back'), rooted in the Latin verb 'retinere' — to hold back or restrain. The same Latin root, fittingly, gives us 'retain.'
- not reign
- homophone chaos, one is leather, one is royalty
- etymology
- from latin retinere, to hold back
- idiom power
- give free rein means release control, not grab it
- physical truth
- a horse can ignore it entirely if it wants