Brewer's: 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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