smell the barn

smell the barn
To experience heightened anticipation or to act with renewed speed or energy as one approaches a destination, goal, or other desired outcome, like a livestock animal at days end returning to its barn.

"The horses smell the barn right now," said Capt. Clark D. Carr, the battalions Protestant chaplain, who knows perhaps better than anyone how badly they want to leave.


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