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Definition of look a gift horse in the mouth

look a gift horse in the mouth

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Other terms relating to 'a':

Definitions include: amphetamine.
Definitions include: the best.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: excessive.
Definitions include: sexual activity.
Definitions include: In the West/Central Canadian accent, "about" is pronounced somewhere between "aboot" and "a boat".
Definitions include: a little crazy
Definitions include: an unspecified small number.
Definitions include: to play around.
Definitions include: very common.
Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate.
Definitions include: a non-specified price.
Definitions include: a non-specified price.
Definitions include: to collide with a tree.
Definitions include: an ugly face.

Other terms relating to 'gift':

Definitions include: a loser.
Definitions include: something excellent for.
Definitions include: skilled in conversation.
Definitions include: to give someone a gift that was previously received as a gift from a different person.

Other terms relating to 'horse':

Definitions include: to bring up a subject that was resolved (or should have been resolved) long ago.
Definitions include: a cramp of the leg.
Definitions include: usually "dark horse candidate."
Definitions include: when eating, to often eat a lot.
Definitions include: to continue trying something that one has had difficulty with in the past.
Definitions include: a position of arrogance.
Definitions include: to make one's future success dependent on something.
Definitions include: to wait patiently.
Definitions include: heroin.
Definitions include: to play around.
Definitions include: a big lie, exaggeration, or a lot of nonsense.
Definitions include: a formulaic "western" (that is - a story about the American West.)
Definitions include: idiot; "jackass".
Definitions include: nonsense
Definitions include: horse's ass.

Other terms relating to 'in':

Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: no chance.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: at some time before the present.
Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
Definitions include: included.
Definitions include: clitoris.
Definitions include: to intrude.
Definitions include: See barge in.
Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."

Other terms relating to 'look':

Definitions include: acronym for "do I look like I give a shit."
Definitions include: an angered glance.
Definitions include: acronym for "funny looking kid", an insult used by doctors in the UK on medical charts.
Definitions include: acronym for "good looking mum", used on medical charts by doctors in the UK.
Definitions include: "Thank you."
Definitions include: to examine.
Definitions include: acronym for "looking for".
Definitions include: acronym for "looks good to me".
Definitions include: to be alert.
Definitions include: the general appearance of software or a website.
Definitions include: don't look at me like that.
Definitions include: look at everything.
Definitions include: to act superior.
Definitions include: an attractive person.
Definitions include: "look".

Other terms relating to 'mouth':

Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio.
Definitions include: to say bad things about another person.
Definitions include: a person having a "big mouth" reveals information that they shouldn't.
Definitions include: a person who talks too much.
Definitions include: to be born into wealth and privilege.
Definitions include: dry mouth.
Definitions include: a metaphorical condition which causes one to talk excessively.
Definitions include: to be extremely angry.
Definitions include: to frequently put (one's) foot in (one's) mouth - i.e. say inappropriate things.
Definitions include: to reveal information that one shouldn't.
Definitions include: to swear frequently.
Definitions include: to talk continuously.
Definitions include: a person who talks excessively.
Definitions include: implies someone who is (sometimes) not too bright, unkempt, nerdy.
Definitions include: to be insolent.

Other terms relating to 'the':

Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone.
Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving.
Definitions include: interrogation.
Definitions include: extremely intoxicated
Definitions include: information.
Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a good estimate.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: inclusive.
Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse.
Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing.
Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular.
Definitions include: of a male, to urinate.
Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them
Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.

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