| 词汇 | horse-sense |
| 释义 | horse sense noun[ U ] old-fashioneduk /ˈhɔːs ˌsens/ us /ˈhɔːrs ˌsens/ practical knowledge and good judgment about ordinary life常识 Synonym common sense Compare gumptioninformal See also sensenoun Intelligence acuity acumen agility apt aptness brain grey matter gumption highbrow hyper-intelligent imaginative perceptively percipient percipiently perspicacious perspicaciously perspicacity profundity whip-smart wisdom Examples of horse sensehorse sense It seems at first sight to be horsesense and one sees no reason why anyone should oppose it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The parents and children of this country have a certain amount of horsesense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have always taken the view that there is more political horsesense in my own fellow-countrymen than among anyone else's fellow. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It also contains some solid, good horsesense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We only need use our horsesense, and it is very rarely that we can use that in rating matters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We want to talk plain horsesense on this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is not a question of precedents but of plain horsesense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Intuition is enough; instinct is sufficient; common sense or horsesense is enough without intensive research. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That is not absence of the spirit of adventure; it is ordinary, common, horsesense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is a great deal of know-how and shrewd horsesense among the bank managers in the county towns. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is interesting to note in passing how the horsesense of the people accords with this view. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You need not only men of great intellectual ability and brilliance, you need men with solid horsesense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am just a layman with horsesense—common sense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My industry settles problems by using horsesense among commonsense employers and employees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He told an audience that to put their money into war savings was to use common sense, good horsesense. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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