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| IF you look a gift horse in the mouth at the Emmy Awards tonight, you might just find an IRS agent lurking behind a tonsil. This attention is salutary, but at the risk of looking a gift horse in the mouth, Le Va deserves to be understood on his own terms, not, as one critic had it, for laying the groundwork for Maurizio Cattelan and Urs Fischer. Samuel makes a special trip to seek out the giant, Garr, after having learned his lesson of looking a gift horse in the mouth, and hopes his life goes back to normal, when people didn't even know his name. |
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gift horse - a gift (usually of inferior quality) that should be accepted uncritically; "it wasn't much, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth"