A response to someone wishing for something, conveying that merely wishing for something has no effect or is of no use.

Alternative form of if wishes were horses, beggars would ride

(medicine, informal) When diagnosing a patient's symptoms, common ailments should be considered as more probable than rare ones.

(idiomatic) To put things in the wrong order or with the wrong priorities; to put something inconsequential as more important than something more essential.

(obsolete, slang) To be hanged on the gallows.

(idiomatic) Directly from the source; firsthand.

(idiomatic) firsthand; direct; from the source.

(idiomatic, hyperbolic) I am very hungry; short form of "I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse."

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Used in place of a real explanation when excusing oneself for a short period of time, particularly to use a toilet.

An expression critical of committees — which by analogy can extend to both group decision-making as well as abstract or unrelated managerialism — by emphasizing the weaknesses of incorporating too many conflicting and inexperienced opinions into a single project. The distinguishing features of a camel, including its humps, plate-shaped feet, habitual spitting, strange shape and poor temperament, are treated as the sort of deformities that typify a conflicted, or overly idealistic, design process.