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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2009/11/26 18:21 UTC 版)
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gift horse
語源
From the economics of horse ownership, in which an aging horse of declining value continues to require feeding and stabling. Possibly influenced by the proverb don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
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- (idiomatic) An apparent gift, that has substantial associated costs or drawbacks, especially a gift that does not fit perfectly with the recipient's wants or needs.
- 1837, Washington Irving, The Adventures of Captain Bonneville:
- Having now, as he thought, balanced this little account of friendship, the captain was about to shift his saddle to this noble gift-horse when the affectionate patriarch plucked him by the sleeve, and introduced to him a whimpering, whining, leathern-skinned old squaw, that might have passed for an Egyptian mummy, without drying. "This," said he, "is my wife; she is a good wife--I love her very much.--She loves the horse--she loves him a great deal--she will cry very much at losing him.--I do not know how I shall comfort her--and that makes my heart very sore."
- 1996, Daniel Clement Dennett, Darwin's dangerous idea: evolution and the meanings of life, page 352:
- To human beings, on the other hand, each meme vehicle is a potential friend or foe, bearing a gift that will enhance our powers or a gift horse that will distract us, burden our memories, derange our judgment.
- 1990 Fall, Daniel Tyree McElrath, “Abusing the Privilege”, in Ploughshares, volume 16, number 2/3, page 154:
- "Don't worry. You can keep them. You don't have to pay for them." / Well, a gift horse and all that. I took the sneakers.
- 2000, Michelle Spring, Running for Shelter, page 164:
- The woman on the telephone in the science-faculty office found me an address for Timothy Butler in no time at all. Full marks for information retrieval. Zero for security. If I had been consulted, I would have insisted that callers produce something more compelling than a vague interest in locating a student before his address could be handed over. Still, what it is they say about a gift horse?
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it wasn't much, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
それは十分ではないが、贈り物にケチをつけるな - 日本語WordNet
The white horse that Penthesilea rode, a gift from the wife of the North Wind, flashed like lightning through a dark cloud among the companies of the Greeks,発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
ペンテシレイアが乗っている、北風の妻から贈られた白馬は、ギリシア軍の隊列の間を、暗雲を貫く雷光のようにひらめいた。 - Andrew Lang『トロイア物語：都市の略奪者ユリシーズ』
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