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High Country Driving Club - Do you speak carriage? - 4 |
 | | - term with a long history - a hack, or worn-out horse, is short for hackney and has been in use since the 14th century in connection with hired horses. |
| | It is thought that this may be an adaptation of the name Middle English name Hackenei, now an inner-London borough, Hackney, but once a village on the outskirts where horses were raised before taken into the city for sale or hire. |
| | Most rented horses being past their best from long and ill-use, hackney came to mean not only the broken-down horse but any common drudge, a sense that has been extended, in the abbreviated form, hack, to include fee-for-service writers and low-level political time servers which influenced the development of hackneyed phrase - "trite" |
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