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Originally Posted by Roger Slater
"breaking reins" confuses me a bit. I looked up the phrase and variations and couldn't find it used this way. "Breaking reins" are a kind of rein, no? At any rate, I couldn't parse how the line worked its grammar and syntax.
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I wondered about that too and decided the horses snapped their reins when they bolted—or, rather, the angels did it, whoever they are.