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horse sense
noun
- common sense.
horse sense
noun
- another term for common sense
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of horse sense1
Idioms and Phrases
Sound practical sense, as in She's got too much horse sense to believe his story . The exact allusion in this term, which dates from the mid-1800s, is disputed, since some regard horses as rather stupid. However, they tended to be viewed more positively in the American West, where the term originated.Example Sentences
He had that horse sense about him and how horses are traveling and what they should have left in the tank.
Cole gets schooled in horse sense; his training features an in-your-face close-up of a wheelbarrow full of manure.
One might say they figured it just made good horse sense.
More likely, it was something in American Pharoah鈥檚 horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.
People have many ways of talking about intuition: gut, nose, sixth sense, horse sense, Spidey-sense.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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