Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Fall 9-15-2008
Abstract
Yes, of course I know the expression is “Don’t look,” not kicking, but our collective professional behavior makes “kicking” the more operative and appropriate verbal. More about this in due course. As an expression, “don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” comes to us from the Lain, Noli equi dentes inspicere donate. Some argue Jerome said it first in 400 A.D., in which his words, very nearly our Latin literally translated, ran, “Never inspect the teeth of a gift horse.”
Keywords
Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program, Libraries, MLIS, MLS
Digital Commons Citation
Herring, Mark Y., "Kicking a Gift Horse in the Mouth" (2008). Dacus Library Faculty Publications. 59.
https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/dacus_facpub/59
