MOTS EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «LOOK A GIFT-HORSE IN THE MOUTH»
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Don't
Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth!: (and Other W
Explains the meaning of some common sayings, and shows how to use each idiom correctly.
Cynthia Fitterer Klingel, 2009
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Cartoon-illustrated Metaphors: Idioms, Proverbs, Cliches, ...
This saying dates from St. Jerome's biblical commentary (C. 420 A.D.) on St.
Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians. » Getting last-year's computer as a gift is good
enough; we shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. » Billy received a model
airplane ...
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Little Girl Goo: Looking
a Gift Horse in the Mouth
grandfather through the abuse she would just reply: Never look a gift horse in the
mouth child. But again, I questioned, if this is a gift horse then, I'd hate to see what
the horse would bring when attempting to punish. Well, I attempted to write this ...
4
A Dictionary of American Proverbs
1929 Graves, Good-bye to All That; US1864 Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
, eds.Bassler andDunlap (1953). 20c. coll.: CODP 34, ODEP 791, Stevenson
1178:10, T&W 191, Whiting (MP) 325. 24. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Vars.
Wolfgang Mieder, Stewart A. Kingsbury, Kelsie B. Harder, 1992
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Idioms
in the News - 1,000 Phrases, Real Examples
Mark Zuckerberg's donation of $100 million to the troubled schools of Newark
made waves last week, but now it's time to look a gift horse in the mouth... —The
New York Times (9/28/2010) The sudden possibility that one or more full-scale ...
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial ...
(p. 585) The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, rev. ed. New York: Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich, 1970. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. (APP 191; ODEP
301; CODP 91; MP 324; DAP 311) 1867 "Liberty is a gift horse, wich he would
look in ...
George B. Bryan, Wolfgang Mieder, 2005
1871 : G. Eliot, Middlemarehchyiv,\ thought 1 was not to look a gift-horse in the
mouth, sir. 3. Gifts break a rock. 1640: Mabbe, Exemplar* Novels, ii 169 (1900),
Gifts will break through stonewalls. 1732: Fuller, 1649. 4. Gifts enter without ...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis, 2005
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
6 The Latin version of the proverb don't look a gift horse in the mouth (no/i. . . equi
dentes inspicere donati) was known to St Jerome in the early 5th century AD. The
16th-century English form was do not look a given horse in the mouth.
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Dictionary of European Proverbs
... be choosers don't look a gift horse in the mouth he who pays the piper calls the
tune never look a gift horse in the mouth one shouldn't look a gift horse in the
mouth einem geschenkten Gaul sieht man nicht ins Maul geschenktem Gaul
sieht ...
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Cheater's Guide to Speaking English Like
a Native
Never look a gift horse in the mouth In earlier times one of the best ways of
determining the health of a horse was to open its mouth and look at its teeth. This
led to the expression "never look a gift horse in the mouth," meaning that you ...
Boye Lafayette De Mente, 2007
