look a gift horse in the mouth

[look a gift horse in the mouth] To complain if a gift is not perfect. — A proverb. Usually used with a negative.

* /John gave Joe a baseball but Joe complained that the ball was old. His father told him not to look a gift horse in the mouth./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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