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View synonyms for horse sense

horse sense

noun

  1. common sense.


horse sense

noun

  1. another term for common sense
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of horse sense1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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Idioms and Phrases

Sound practical sense, as in She's got too much horse sense to believe his story . The exact allusion in this term, which dates from the mid-1800s, is disputed, since some regard horses as rather stupid. However, they tended to be viewed more positively in the American West, where the term originated.
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Example Sentences

(Despite such horse sense, today Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia allow loaded guns in bars).

Maybe it's just a deep distrust of common horse-sense and a faith in expertise.

Taking first the head, which should be bony, not fleshy, remember that the more brain the more horse sense.

He was endowed with strong common sense, which the pike boys called “horse sense,” to emphasize its excellence.

"If you're goin' ter talk ter me, you've got ter talk plain horse sense," he declared testily.

He has too much horse-sense in spite of his emotional gymnastics.

I don't know whether I think that is anything but horse-sense.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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