forelock

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a lock of hair that grows or falls over a person's forehead

   A loose forelock fell across his eyes.

2. 2
   noun

   the part of a horse's mane that falls forward between its ears

   The rider gently brushed the horse's forelock.

From Old English forelocc, a compound of fore, 'front,' and lock, 'tress of hair.' The idiom take time by the forelock imagines seizing an opportunity as it approaches, before it passes beyond one's grasp.

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