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What is a gift horse...
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02-03-2015 9:41pm#1
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...And why should you never look it in the mouth?
As horses develop they grow more teeth and their existing teeth begin to change shape and project further forward. Determining a horse's age from its teeth is a specialist task, but it can be done.
As with most proverbs the origin is ancient and unknown. The phrase appears in print in English in 1546, as "don't look a given horse in the mouth", in John Heywood's
where he gives it as:A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue,But even further than that it might come from the Latin text of St. Jerome."No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth."0 -
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Littlekittylou wrote: »As horses develop they grow more teeth and their existing teeth begin to change shape and project further forward. Determining a horse's age from its teeth is a specialist task, but it can be done.
As with most proverbs the origin is ancient and unknown. The phrase appears in print in English in 1546, as "don't look a given horse in the mouth", in John Heywood's where he gives it as:But even further than that it might come from the Latin text of St. Jerome.
Ah kitty kitty kitty Chucken was only asking a sensible
question about a horse bearing gifts, I think you went a bit overboard with your answer 
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