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Definition of Reins

Reins

The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.

The inward impulses; the affections and passions; -- so called because formerly supposed to have their seat in the part of the body where the kidneys are.

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Reins Quotations

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
Benjamin Franklin

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.
George Eliot

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
Lytton Strachey

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.
Jim Capaldi

I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.
Jensen Ackles

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.
Shelley Long

I do like my hair being pulled from time to time, it's like a pair of reins, innit?
Katie Price

A statesman, we are told, should follow public opinion. Doubtless, as a coachman follows his horses; having firm hold on the reins and guiding them.
Augustus Hare

In my thirties, I felt I had hold of one of the reins some of the time.
Chaka Khan

The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand.
William Cavendish

You have to keep your sanity as well as know how to distance yourself from it while still holding onto the reins tightly. That is a very difficult thing to do, but I'm learning.
Diahann Carroll

I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.
Joe Manchin III

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Reins Translations

reins in Latin is frenum

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