#etemology is something tired high school or college students would go to a library about because they didn’t want to put in the work to find

[timdrake-yumm]

Tim: hey why is the saying “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” when that’s what led to the fall of Troy? Should the saying be “look a gift horse in the mouth”?

Jason: Uhh good question, why ISN’T it “look a gift horse in the mouth”?

Babs: it actually has nothing to do with Troy. The etymology behind “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” actually refers to how you can tell a horse’s age by it’s teeth, and therefore how valuable it is. So, if you got a horse as a gift and then looked at its teeth to see how old it is, it’d be the same as getting, say, a watch or necklace, and asking how much the person paid for it

Damian: t-t I would much rather have the horse