What Is a Gift Horse, and Why Shouldn’t You Look Inside Its Mouth?
Like many old proverbs, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” used to have a very literal meaning before the passage of time ...
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Eight ingenious idioms and their origins
Meaning: Don't find fault with something that you ... Of course I’d rather the jumper wasn’t yellow, but I won’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” Meaning: Everything there is, or all ...