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What is a gift horse...

  • 02-03-2015 9:41pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭


    ...And why should you never look it in the mouth? :confused:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Because they'll eat your face right off your skull.
    Gift-Horse.jpg


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,357 ✭✭✭Littlekittylou


    Chucken wrote: »
    ...And why should you never look it in the mouth? :confused:

    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
    A dialogue conteinyng the nomber in effect of all the prouerbes in the Englishe tongue,
    where he gives it as:
    "No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth."
    But even further than that it might come from the Latin text of St. Jerome.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Stop with your logic :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    What a load of piffle and balderdash that was, eh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Horses are bleedin' gift!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Never mind the damed gift horses and mouths just grab the gift and run.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32 TheOtherMan


    I really dont know


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    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 :D question about a horse bearing gifts, I think you went a bit overboard with your answer :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    I really dont know

    And do you really care?????


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Its a horse you get as a present.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    But if you got it yesterday, is it still a present? :confused:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,711 ✭✭✭C.K Dexter Haven


    I don't know what a steam iron is


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    1346017979343_9090156.png


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Chucken wrote: »
    But if you got it yesterday, is it still a present? :confused:

    NO yesterday is the past today is the present so expect another present today but not from the same horse if you get my drift. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Horses drift? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭lulu1


    Tell me this was the steam iron or the gin the present you got from the gift horse you never said


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Yes.


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