词汇 | horse sense |
词源 | horse sense. Horse sense for good plain common sense comes from the American West, about 1850, inspired by the cowboys’ trusty intelligent little cow ponies, trained even to do a good deal of cattle-herding work without directions from their rid- ers (as noted in The Nation, August 18, 1870). |
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