Oct 10, 2017 07:50
6 yrs ago
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Italian term

A caval donato non si guarda in bocca

Non-PRO Italian to English Art/Literary General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
I know what it means but I am looking for an equivalent in English.

The context is a piece of modern literature
Proposed translations (English)
4 +11 Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
Change log

Oct 10, 2017 08:03: Grace Anderson changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (3): writeaway, Tom in London, Grace Anderson

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Proposed translations

+11
1 min
Selected

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth

Peer comment(s):

agree Vojislava Jankovic (X)
1 min
agree SYLVY75 : Yup!
3 mins
agree writeaway : exactly the same in English!!
7 mins
agree Hara Iliopoulou
1 hr
agree Cedric Randolph : yes, straighforward
1 hr
agree Ivana UK
1 hr
agree Lara Barnett
3 hrs
agree EleoE
7 hrs
agree Michele Fauble
7 hrs
agree Robert Parry : Absolutely!
9 hrs
agree Peter Cox
11 hrs
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