Bearadactyl

Actually it isn't. It's just rude to inspect a gift for flaws in front of the person giving it to you. It's free, be grateful.

Huh, I was always taught that it derived from the Trojan Horse ordeal.

But, then again, I was also taught the history of Thanksgiving was peaceful.

So, no surprises here.

Yea no, it comes from the olden days where part of checking how healthy a horse was looking in it's mouth etc... It was considered rude to do an inspection of a horse soemone was freely giving to you. ((epsically consdiering how hard it was to own one waaaaaay back in the day.)). So, it doesn't come from there lol. ((that is jsut one instance where they kinda should have looked a gift horse in the mouth... and when they didn't went south from them lol. I don;t believe the saying e...