Wild Houses

The phrase 'Wild horses… ' crops up in many sayings, expressions and idioms (gift horse; high horse; dark horse etc.) Although ‘horse’ and ‘house’ are pronounced differently, they seem in a linguistically curious way somehow connected. I’m playing around with the images I get from substituting ‘house’ for ‘horse’ in the many sayings where the word ‘horse…’ is used… series to be continued!