don't look a gift horse in the mouth

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谚语
  1. One should not unappreciatively question or inspect a gift too closely.
    — No man ought to looke a geuen hors in the mouth.

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词源

Calque from Latin expressions such as equi dentes inspicere donati (“to inspect the teeth of a provided horse”) in St. Jerome's c. 400 Preface to the Commentaries of the Letter to the Ephesians (Commentariorum in Epistolam ad Ephesios Libri Tres), which designates it as a "common proverb" (vulgare proverbium). The ultimate referrent is inspection of horses' teeth as a way of ascertaining their age and value.
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