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 Look for a Needle in a Bottle of Hay (To).Look One Way and Row Another (To). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth.
 
“Noli dentes equi inspicere donati.” Do not examine a gift too critically.   1
 


 Look for a Needle in a Bottle of Hay (To).Look One Way and Row Another (To). 

 
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