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 Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth.Look through Blue Glasses or Coloured Spectacles. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Look One Way and Row Another (To).
 
“Olera spectant, lardum tollunt.” To aim apparently at one thing, but really to be seeking something quite different.   1
 


 Look not a Gift Horse in the Mouth.Look through Blue Glasses or Coloured Spectacles. 

 
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