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Meaning: (biblical)Four beings inRevelation6:1–8 that bring about theApocalypse, eachembodiedas ahorsemanriding a different-colored horse that represents a different aspect of the Apocalypse.2024,Boris Kagarlitsky,The Long Retreat: Strategies to Reverse the Decline of the Left, page115:At the opening of theNew TestamentBook of Revelations, the end of the world is heralded by thefour horsemen of the apocalypse, symbolising sickness, hunger, war and death.; (idiomatic)Harbingersofdoom; several signs which combine to imply the imminence of literal or figurative destruction.2008, Shayna M. Steinfeld, Bruce R. Steinfeld,The family lawyer's guide to bankruptcy: forms, tips, and strategies, page iii:Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,... Here and now those dread specters are: Divorce, Illness, Unemployment and Overspending. These are now the harbingers of economic doom[…]2006, Ronald Brian Adler, Lawrence B. Rosenfeld, Russell F. Proctor,Interplay: the process of interpersonal communication, page305:[One authority] has identified four types of communication, which he calls the "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," that are signs of a marriage having problems[…]
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