“He always looked a given horse in the mouth.”
Source: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Gargantua (1534), Chapter 11.
“3273. Look not a given Horse in the Mouth.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
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