Lose the Horse or win the Saddle.

Everything or nothing. “Aut Cæsar, aut nullus.” A man made the bet of a horse that another could not say the Lord’s Prayer without a wandering thought. The bet was accepted, but before half-way through the person who accepted the bet looked up and said, “By-the-bye, do you mean the saddle also?”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Lord of the Isles
Loredano (James)
Lorenzo (in Edward Young’s Nights Thoughts)
Loretto
Lorrequer (Harry)
Lose
Lose Caste (To)
Lose Heart (To)
Lose not a Tide
Lose the Day (To)
Lose the Horse or win the Saddle
Losing a Ship for a Haporth o Tar
Loss
Lost Island
Lothair
Lothario
Lothian (Scotland)
Lotus
Lotus-eaters or Lotophagi
Loud Patterns
Loud as Tom of Lincoln