25 Old Phrases We Don’t Hear As Much Anymore, and It’s a Real Shame

A bull at a gate means to act hastily or rashly “like a bull at a gate,” and maybe I haven’t spent enough time around bulls, or maybe the bulls I have spent time with are a little outside the norm, but I didn’t realize that it was typical for a bull to charge at a gate. So I can’t help but wonder where the meaning of this phrase comes from.