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Horse sense

noun

Sound practical judgment. Synonyms: common sense, good sense, gumption, mother wit, sense. "He hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples" , "Fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

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"Horse sense" Quotes from Famous Books

... that one of these modern, sawed-off cottages would create a hundred years from now, if it should survive! But that is impossible. The only cheering feature of the whole matter is that these creatures of a disordered imagination must soon pass away, and the bright sunlight of hard horse sense shine in through the shattered dormers and gables and gnawed-off architecture ...

— Remarks • Bill Nye

... "Now you talk horse sense," said the alert Yankee. "I'm going out to 'square things' with old Andrew Fraser's son. Don't ever kick a man when he's down! The old boy has had a very 'rough deal.' That 'fake' about Thibet nearly broke him ...

— A Fascinating Traitor • Richard Henry Savage

... brief instant the discovery stunned us. Klae dead? Klae whose IQ had become a measuring guide for the entire system, whose Martian head held more ordinary horse sense, in addition to radical postulations on theoretical physics, than anyone on ...

— The Long Voyage • Carl Richard Jacobi

Words linked to "Horse sense" : sagaciousness, sagacity, discernment, road sense, nous, logic, judgment, judgement