英语词汇don’t look a gift horse in the mouth的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. The age of a horse can be roughly determined by examining its teeth. That people knew this long before a.d. 400 is witnessed by the appearance of the above expression in the writings of St. Jerome, who called it a familiar proverb at the time. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, an injunction to accept presents gracefully without try- ing to find something wrong with them or determine how much they’re worth, is literally reproduced in German, French, and other languages, though its first English use is don’t look a given horse in the mouth.

词汇	don’t look a gift horse in the mouth
词源	don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. The age of a horse can be roughly determined by examining its teeth. That people knew this long before a.d. 400 is witnessed by the appearance of the above expression in the writings of St. Jerome, who called it a familiar proverb at the time. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth, an injunction to accept presents gracefully without try- ing to find something wrong with them or determine how much they’re worth, is literally reproduced in German, French, and other languages, though its first English use is don’t look a given horse in the mouth.
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