horse sense
Example Sentences
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One might say they figured it just made good horse sense.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2020
More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.
From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019
“Some of them, my horse sense says that they’re kind of enjoying giving me a certain shock, and there’s a certain theatrical aspect … but I can’t know.”
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018
“One of the all-time great horses in this era,” said Sherman, whose horse sense comes hard-earned.
From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016
The estimates provide a good example of how numerical horse sense can check pseudoscientific ravings.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
