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Gift horse   /gɪft hɔrs/   Listen
Gift horse

noun
1.
A gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically.





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"Gift horse" Quotes from Famous Books



... that I am basely looking a gift horse in the mouth. Not at all. I am only declining to believe the porter to be a peer of the realm merely because he wears a white cravat and has tranquil manners. If Midas is a dull man, all the money in the world does not make him interesting. But if he has accumulated beautiful and interesting things, ...
— From the Easy Chair, vol. 1 • George William Curtis
... Abe," he said seriously. "A feller should never look a gift horse in the teeth, Abe; but that fiddle ain't worth a cent more than ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass


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