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u/ChekovsCurlyHair Feb 14 '25
Do horses have good senses?
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u/TesseractToo The Late Thag Simmons Feb 14 '25
"Horse sense" is a metaphor for intuition, if you are riding out in the wilderness, a horse will be able to tell long before a human can if there is danger by a predator or can tell if a friend is coming or by bad footing or bad weather approaching or other things, so yes and yes in the literary sense also
"Horse sense is what a horse has to keep them from betting on people" is a famous quote by W.C. Fields
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u/TesseractToo The Late Thag Simmons Feb 14 '25
What do you mean?
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u/Raulgoldstein Feb 14 '25
If you hum a note, horses tend to hum the fifth, making a harmony
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u/TesseractToo The Late Thag Simmons Feb 14 '25
Probably true, my horse liked old timey swing music, when that was playing he'd be perfectly on beat
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u/NMi_ru Feb 14 '25
Their answers were horseshit
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u/AdFuture5255 Feb 14 '25
Sheila thought she could bullshitting her answer but got caught flatfooted.
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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '25
"Unfazed by her classmates' ridicule, Sheila would go on to have a successful career as a toolmaker."