HORSE SENSE Definition & Meaning

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horse sense

noun

common sense.

horse sense

noun

another term for common sense

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of horse sense¹

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

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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.

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He had that horse sense about him and how horses are traveling and what they should have left in the tank.

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Cole gets schooled in horse sense; his training features an in-your-face close-up of a wheelbarrow full of manure.

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One might say they figured it just made good horse sense.

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More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.

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People have many ways of talking about intuition: gut, nose, sixth sense, horse sense, Spidey-sense.

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