horse sense
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I’m not saying she was Stephen Hawking, but she at least evinced a sort of horse sense, paired with grinning charisma, that you could imagine might make her an effective mayor or governor.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2022
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
The ex-Rangers, reclassified as highway patrolmen for their new mission, prefer to rely on horse sense and cowboy folk wisdom.
From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2019
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
