gift horse

1. 1.

   a gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically

   “it wasn't much, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth”

   Broadergift

Questions about gift horse

What does gift horse mean?

gift horse means "a gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically".

Is gift horse a common word?

gift horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.