| 单词 | gift horse |
| 释义 | gift horse (once / 72959 pages) n The saying "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" means that you shouldn't criticize a gift, even if you don't like it very much. A gift horse, in other words, is a gift. The term gift horse is pretty easy to remember if you imagine the horse as a present. The idiom itself probably stems from the practice of determining a horse's age from looking at its teeth. It would be rude to receive a horse for your birthday and immediately examine its mouth in front of the person who gave it to you, as if you were trying to figure out the value of your gift. WORD FAMILYgift horse: gift horses USAGE EXAMPLESYet he couldn’t stop looking this gift horse in the mouth. Wall Street Journal(Dec 03, 2016) The Sounders are unlikely to look their stable of gift horses in the mouth. Seattle Times(Oct 12, 2016) Really Good replaces Gift Horse, a skeletal sculpture that displayed a live feed from the London Stock Exchange by German artist Hans Haacke. BBC(Sep 28, 2016) n a gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically it wasn't much, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth Hyper gift something acquired without compensation |
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