look a gift horse in the mouth

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To look a gift horse in the mouth is to find fault with something given freely. Do not look a gift horse in the mouth.

It is used almost only in the negative, as advice against doing it. A horse's age is told from its teeth, which is why you look a gift horse in the mouth at all.

Definitions of look a gift horse in the mouth

1phraselook a gift horse in the mouthTo find fault with something given to you freely.C1
“The car was free and he would not look a gift horse in the mouth.”

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look a gift horse in the mouth

phraseC1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

To look a gift horse in the mouth is to find fault with something given freely. Do not look a gift horse in the mouth.

It is used almost only in the negative, as advice against doing it. A horse's age is told from its teeth, which is why you look a gift horse in the mouth at all.

Definitions of look a gift horse in the mouth

1phraselook a gift horse in the mouthTo find fault with something given to you freely.C1
“The car was free and he would not look a gift horse in the mouth.”

look a gift horse in the mouth is a phrase.

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