"Hold your horses", sometimes said as "Hold the horses", is a common idiom to mean "hold on" or wait, which is believed to have originated in the United States of America in the 19th century and is historically related to horse riding, or driving a horse-drawn vehicle.
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Famous quotes containing the words hold and/or horses:
“I hold the olive in my hand. My words are as full of peace as matter.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I have just read your dispatch about sore tongued and fatiegued [sic] horses. Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the battle of Antietem that fatigue anything?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)