Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 16:30:48 03/13/05
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On March 12, 2005 at 11:06:49, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Problem is that not even was a bad horse, but a dead fish clothed as a bad >horse.... >Fdo or perhaps a dead horse ...the saying "NEVER LOOK A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH" has been around for centuries... "According to Charles Earle Funk in "A Hog on Ice" (Harper & Row, New York, 1948), the expression "to look a gift horse in the mouth" is "...so old that its origins cannot be determined. It has been traced to the writings of St. Jerome, one of the L*tin Fathers of the fourth century, who then labeled it a common proverb. The expression, or a variant proverb, occurs in French, Italian, Spanish, and other languages of Europe. The reference is, of course, to the bad manners displayed by one who receives a gift if he examines it for defects. Up to a certain age, the age of a horse can be determined by looking at its teeth; though it may appear to be young and frisky, the number or condition of teeth may show it to be almost fit for nothing but the glue-works."
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