out with horses

“ ‘And then eloping’s out of date, it went out with horses.’

‘Oh dear now they’re all eaten poor things.’

‘Too many people on this island keep carnivorous pets Mary,’ he replied. ‘The waste is fearful.’ ”

(Henry Green, Nothing, p. 87.)

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