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horse sense

n. Informal

Common sense; gumption.

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horse sense

another term for common sense

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com′mon sense′

sound practical judgment independent of specialized knowledge or training; normal native intelligence.

[1525–35; translation of Latin sēnsus commūnis]

com′mon•sense′, adj.

com′mon•sen′si•cal, com′mon•sen′si•ble, adj.

com′mon•sen′si•cal•ly, com′mon•sen′si•bly, adv.

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Noun

horse sense - sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away"

common sense, good sense, gumption, mother wit, sense

sagaciousness, sagacity, discernment, judgement, judgment - the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

logic - reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"

nous - common sense; "she has great social nous"

road sense - good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road

horse sense

noun

Informal. The ability to make sensible decisions:

common sense, judgment, sense, wisdom.

Informal: gumption.

Translations

buon senso

horse sense

n (fam) → buonsenso

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All of Daylight's horse knowledge and horse sense was called into play, while Bob, in turn, worked every trick in his lexicon.

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Men have some horse sense, though Sarah don't know it.

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

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He'll see that that's horse sense. Let him come at ten o'clock at night, and he shall see everything.

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"There's so much more to it than that, just dealing with personalities in the room, reading the room, conversations and then just good, old-fashioned horse sense."

Maddon wants more for established managers

If the cart hurtled with an extra jolt before the steed in the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) this week, at least our comrades were trying to instill some horse sense into it all.

Loud thinking on the party line

HORSE SENSE: 'Letting out land to a neighbour who then keeps his or her children's ponies on the land can never create an agricultural tenancy'

Tendency for tenancy tiny; In my view Hamish Lean

Horse Sense Wirral is appealing for urgent help to stop the 150 animals which live at its Thornton Hough site from being made homeless.

Charity in urgent plea for donations

HORSE SENSE Johnson's City are chasing play-off spot

Johnson's really hot to Trotter

Spending money to buy votes in the Senate does not strictly fall in the definition of political horse-trading which term is simply indicative of complex and shrewd bargaining and reciprocal concessions; a bit of horse sense is required!

Trading places

Importantly, though, he is a good horseman with good horse sense. That's crucial.