Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

1. (biblical) Four beings in Revelation 6:1–8 that bring about the Apocalypse, each embodied as a horseman riding 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, page 115:

     At the opening of the New Testament Book of Revelations, the end of the world is heralded by the four horsemen of the apocalypse, symbolising sickness, hunger, war and death.

2. (idiomatic) Harbingers of doom; 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, page 305:

     [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 […]

• white rider, White Rider: (Conquest or Pestilence)
• red rider, Red Rider: (War)
• black rider, Black Rider: (Famine)
• pale rider, Pale Rider: (Death)

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