Looking a gift horse in the mouth (1 Viewer)

[dowel]

now I would never do this...but where the hell does the phrase come from, anyone???
I used to listen to that guy on newstalk, who discussed origins of words + phrases before I broke up with daytime radio.

 

[classic seanc]

Someone gives you a free horse, and you start looking at it's dental hygiene and so on. Being nit-picky about it like.

I miss Terry Dolan too

 

[dowel]

aha aha, you can tell I'm only part bogger.

 

[Squiggle]

Someone gives you a free horse, and you start looking at it's dental hygiene and so on. Being nit-picky about it like.

I miss Terry Dolan too

Close and this is a funny Trojan horse debunking

 

[c0De_n1NjA]

grate tred

 

[george mcfly]

did they say where 'wrap your gums around my plums' comes from?

 

[Mitchum]

did they say where 'wrap your gums around my plums' comes from?

Your parish priest?

 

[HMD]

Someone gives you a free horse, and you start looking at it's dental hygiene and so on. Being nit-picky about it like.

I miss Terry Dolan too

he's still on.

i bought his book 'a dictionary of hiberno-english', it's deadly

 

[carbide]

Close and this is a funny Trojan horse debunking

bah. i still prefer imagining the trojans as a kind of wooden horse heartburn, or that the least popular soldier ended up having to be shoved up into the neck and nearly gave the game away.

 

[classic seanc]

he's still on.

i bought his book 'a dictionary of hiberno-english', it's deadly

He is still on, but I'm not around to listen to him you see.

 

[evil bandit]

He really embiggens the show with his cromulent knowledge of words.