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Never _____ a gift horse in the mouth. A. feel B. look C. catch D. hold What does this sentence mean? What should I choose? Thank you very much.
Oct 15, 2016 2:36 PM
Answers · 4
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Never/don't look a gift horse in the mouth. It means to be grateful for a gift instead of asking questions about it or trying to find sth wrong about it and critizeing the gift.
October 15, 2016
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"Look." It comes from the days when ordinary people bought and sold horses. Just as you might check a used car for rust spots or loose ball joints, people knew how to judge the quality of a horse. According to an agricultural college, "The art of determining the age of horses by inspection of the teeth is an old one. It can be developed to a considerable degree of accuracy in determining the age of young horses. The probability of error increases as age advances..." If you were buying a horse, you would inspect the teeth carefully to determine how old the horse was. You would "look the horse in the mouth." In the saying, "a gift horse" means a horse that someone is giving you as a gift, not a horse that you are buying. The saying means that it is rude and improper to judge the quality of a gift. For example, suppose someone gave you an iPhone. It would be polite to say "Oh, how wonderful! Just what I wanted!" It would be impolite to say "Hmmm... I want at least 128GB of storage, let me turn it on so that I can check to see how much you gave me." That would be "looking a gift horse in the mouth."
October 15, 2016
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B is the correct answer, m8. Btw, the whole sentence means to advise someone not to refuse something good that is being offered.
October 15, 2016
Thanks guys!!!
October 16, 2016
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