DON'Т LOOK А GIFТ HORSE IN ТНЕ МОUТН
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Не заглЯдывай дарёному конЮ в рот // К подаркам не следует относИться критИчески. |
"There shall bе as little lingering as possible in your case,
Mr. Maldon, you may depend upon it," said Mr. Wickfield.
"Thank'ee," said the other. "Much obliged. I don't want to
look аt horse in thе mouth, which is not а gracious thing to do ;
otherwise, I dare say, my cousin Annie could easily arrange it
in her own way." (Dickens)
lf he had done his duty as а perfectly straightforward director, indeed, he would never have become а director of the P.P.R.S., because he would have looked into the policy of the Society much more closely than he had before accepting а position on the Board. But what with the names, and the prestige, and oot looking а gift horse too closely in the mouth-there it had been ! (Galsworthy) Stage comedies about sham ghosts indicated, not indeed entire materialism, but а new readiness to look supernatural stories in the mouth. ( Trevelyan) "Get а cigarette?" I gave him one. "You haven't а filter-tip?" "No." "Ah well, mustn't look а gift-horse •.. " (Greene) |