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That's What They Say

...They say... Still waters run deep... Then why are there so many shallow people? When it rains it pours... Usually the day after I wash my truck. Walk softly and carry a big stick... Or wa......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, america, cheer up,
Form: Free verse

English Expressions With Denotation In Brazil

...E Do not hold your breath. P take the horse out of the rain... E Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. P To the given horse do not look out the teeth... E Piss off P inflate the scrotum vol......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, allusion, extended metaphor, funny,
Form: Free verse

Always Look a Gift Horse In the Mouth

...From China came a large packet of seeds My garden bare; it would see to my needs I put them all in the ground And when they sprouted I found I'd only planted Japanese knotweeds.......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, humor,
Form: Limerick

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Hans Haacke's Gift Horse

..."Don't look a gift horse in the mouth", I question. Research on this ancient proverb, of course finally brought me to this aged suggestion: "the longer its teeth, the older the horse." Remember......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, 11th grade, art, chicago,
Form: Rhyme

I'Ll Be Your Joker

...7/20/19 "I'll be your Joker" Still a registered voter Signed up to be an organ donor And finally became a car owner I rarely use a controller When it's time, I'll man up and buy a strol......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, dark, deep, poetry, rap,
Form: Rhyme

Such a Cliche

...I'll drink to that, three sheets in the wind, the Booze cruise Drinking like a fish, kicking the bucket a fine kettle of fish, beyond the pale. A fish o......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, funny, humor, irony, language,
Form: Free verse

'gift Horses' - Note 1

...Your car needs an oil change? Don't worry I've got it! Your P.C.'s just door stop? Well, I'll at least try! Last romance killed night dreams? Come, laugh at my failures! Need empathy booster? I'm ......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, integrity, life,
Form: Quatrain

In Search of the Truth

...They say that wars are started by religion but what religion started what war The Romans started many wars fighting to take over country's Yet they had thousands of Gods can you say that their......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, betrayal, bible, conflict, corruption,
Form: Narrative

A Gift Horse

...Bags and bags of rolls of Wrapping paper sat in piles By the curb as passersby Revealed their New York guiles. The store must not have had the room To keep them for a year, So why not spread ......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, life,
Form: Rhyme

Don'T

...DOn't bite the hand that feeds you Don't burn your bridge behind you Don't cast your pearls before swine Don't change horses in midstream Don't count your chickens before they are hatched. Don'......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, age,
Form: Alliteration

Givers

...It’s better to give than to receive, Something my mom had taught. Trust is something to be earned And love just can’t be bought. To look a gift horse in the mouth Is like falling in a lion’s den......

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Categories: look a gift horse in the mouth, hope, inspirational, life, people,
Form: Rhyme