FTR, in Italian is, more or less, like in English: "a caval donato non si guarda in bocca". I start to suspect Polish people are the only ones that got it right. :)
Polish has a saying, "if someone gives you a horse, don't check its teeth". This is clearly a direct parallel of the English idiom, "don't look a gift horse in the mouth," but a darned sight less ambiguous. /cc @rentalcustard
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The Spanish saying is the equivalent "A caballo regalado, no le mires el diente"
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During Franco's dictatorship, Catalan speakers were called "polacos" (Polish) when speaking in Catalan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaco_(slur) … It is still used as an insult ¯\﹍(ツ)﹍/¯
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Russian too!
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It's interesting to read an adult, intelligent and experienced person discovering intricacies of Polish language.
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The German version, "Einem geschenktem Gaul schaut man nicht ins Maul", is again much closer to the English one. Interesting how such things stay throughout the languages^^
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But those cunning Germans managed to find less-commonly-used words for "horse" and "mouth" which rhyme!
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@propensive The portuguese version is the same as the polish oneThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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English version is very close to Russian: Дарёному коню в зубы не смотрят. But instead mouth here teeth is used as in Polish version :)
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why else would you look in the horse's mouth? :)
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