What does 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth' mean?
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This means that if you are given something, a present or a chance, you should not waste it by being too critical or examining it too closely.
- Category: Animals
Idioms similar to 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth'
- From the horse's mouth
- Eat like a horse
- Could eat a horse
- On your high horse
- Stalking horse
- Charley horse
- Healthy as a horse
- Horse of a different color
- Dark horse
- Horse trading
- Back the wrong horse
- Putting the cart before the horse
- Flogging a dead horse
- Beating a dead horse
- Short horse soon curried
- Close the stable door after the horse has bolted
- Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
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