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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #1 (permalink) Wed Nov 10, 2004 10:59 am   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

Test No. incompl/inter-14 "Popular Idioms (1)", question 10

Never look a gift horse in the ..........

(a) mouth
(b) eye
(c) nose
(d) teeth

Test No. incompl/inter-14 "Popular Idioms (1)", answer 10

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

Correct answer: (a) mouth

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Don't complain if a gift is not perfect #2 (permalink) Wed Nov 10, 2004 11:42 am   Don't complain if a gift is not perfect
 

You should not complain if a gift is not perfect (after all, it's just a gift).

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Gift horse #3 (permalink) Thu Dec 09, 2004 20:03 pm   Gift horse
 

has to have something to do with the fall of Troy
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #4 (permalink) Fri Dec 10, 2004 7:06 am   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

Well, the expression to look a gift horse in the mouth is so old that its origins are very difficult to determine. As far as I know it has been traced to the writings of St. Jerome who labeled it a common saying. Interestingly enough the expression also occurs in French; Spanish; Italian, German and other languages of Europe.

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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #5 (permalink) Sun Apr 10, 2005 21:59 pm   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

That is because if you buy a horse you always look at its teeth to tell its age, and thus its value. In Russian we use the word teeth not mouth in the similar proverb. That's why I made a mistake here.
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #6 (permalink) Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:53 am   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

same in polish :)
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #7 (permalink) Sun Apr 17, 2005 17:53 pm   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

And same in Spanish, but with tooth, instead of teeth.
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Rich #8 (permalink) Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:31 am   Rich
 

We say:" a caballo regalao no se le mira colmillo"

We use "colmillo" for fang because is the largest and noticeable of the teeth.
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #9 (permalink) Mon Apr 18, 2005 20:29 pm   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

unfortunately a horse has no colmillo :D
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Yes #10 (permalink) Wed Apr 20, 2005 5:42 am   Yes
 

Yes I, we know but that's the way it is.
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Gift horse... #11 (permalink) Mon Jun 13, 2005 17:07 pm   Gift horse...
 

same in Romanian. hehe, we all did the same mistake because of that... the good thing is that now at least we know and we won't do it again.
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #12 (permalink) Sun Oct 04, 2009 15:10 pm   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

And same in Bulgarian teeth!!!!
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth? #13 (permalink) Sat Nov 07, 2009 2:38 am   Never look a gift horse in the mouth?
 

My Brazilian 2 cents : "teeth" in Portuguese too. ;o)

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