“3273. Look not a given Horse in the Mouth.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“He always looked a given horse in the mouth.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
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Part I, chapter 5.
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“Smith didn't pay attention to that, he was looking the horse in the eye.”
Gary Ross (1956) American film director
Seabiscuit (2003)
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“He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.”
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1860s
“Surprisingly, it was in my mouth," he said, "I always forget to check there.”
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