look a gift horse in the mouth

(proverb) find a problem with a gift that you have been given

Example Sentences:

A: Happy Birthday, here’s your new car.
B: Dad, it’s the wrong colour! I hate red! I wanted a blue car!
A: Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth you ungrateful girl!

When Jessica’s father died, she received $5000.00. When she told her mom that she wanted more, Jessica’s mom told her that she shouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth, and that she should be thankful for the money she got.

From the Blogs:

The Neighborhood Retail AllianceLooking a gift horse in the mouth

Media:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D-JvtlB_NzI8

Similar idioms:

1. put one’s money where one’s mouth is
2. live from hand to mouth
3. on one’s high horse
4. shoot one’s mouth off
5. so hungry one could eat a horse
6. money doesn’t grow on trees
7. put one’s foot in one’s mouth
8. have one’s heart in one’s mouth
9. down in the mouth
10. mouth watering
11. put the cart before the horse