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> "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth"

The winners apparently write both the history and the idioms. The Trojans would have done well to look a gift horse in the mouth.

A wooden horse can be full of physical soldiers and a digital horse with legal ones.

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Looking at a real horse's teeth shows how worn down they are over age. Looking at a horses teeth is to check its age.

The idiom could be modernized to: 'dont check the odometer of a gift car'

Yes, and the assumption is that a horse is worth between $0 and some number so there is never a reason to refuse a gift horse.

In the case of other "gifts" the value can be negative. The trojan horse, software, and blankets from Lord Jeffery Amherst all need careful examination.

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