Synonyms for horse sense
| Grammar : Noun |
Définition of horse sense
Origin :- 1832, American English colloquial, from horse (n.), perhaps in referfence to the animal's qualities, or the abilites of hostlers and coachmen with the animals, perhaps from the same association of "strong, large, coarse" found in horseradish.
- noun common sense
- Maybe he was right enough, if the feller getting off had got any horse sense.
- Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
- But horse sense made me pass it by and stay on my own home diamond.
- Extract from : « The Gorgeous Girl » by Nalbro Bartley
- The law of compensation itself is the quintessence of horse sense.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
- Marshall Field had horse sense when he inaugurated his business.
- Extract from : « Dollars and Sense » by Col. Wm. C. Hunter
- If you'd horse sense you wouldn't have said what you handed me just now.
- Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Trust Rob, Tubby; give him credit for horse sense, won't you?
- Extract from : « The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico » by Lieut. Howard Payson
- She's got lots of sense, horse sense and flap-doodle sense all mixed up.
- Extract from : « A Yankee from the West » by Opie Read
- And if you've the horse sense I reckon you have, you'll locate my object easy.
- Extract from : « The Man in the Twilight » by Ridgwell Cullum
- In several other places the soldiers used the same brand of horse sense.
- Extract from : « The San Francisco Calamity » by Various
- Brownie may have known what it was for, because he had a great deal of Horse sense, but if he knew he did not tell.
- Extract from : « Tales of a Poultry Farm » by Clara Dillingham Pierson
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