horse-sense

I've got enough plain horse-sense to know a man ain't supposed to argue marriage with a girl as a reason for getting acquainted with her.

Chapter XIV 2010

It's just common "horse-sense" that supporting nonachievers that lack the intellect to support their kids just leads to a bigger problem in the long run.

Saving Carlos: The face of California's crisis 2010

For a man with so many letters after his name, he really seems to lack the one bit that is needed: horse-sense.

Open Thread for Wednesday 2006

How then, is the public helped by taking those journalists who have the intelligence and good horse-sense to see or to find the truth, that they must keep that discovery to themselves?

Free Linda Greenhouse! Free the Press! 2006

And this led to a rather heated argument, in which she found herself siding with MacNab against Papa; for in all the former said there was a good deal of rough horse-sense.

Sister Ann 2004

But I do possess enough horse-sense to know that some of you might have been partying -- and on Mother's Day!

Commencement Speech 1996

Good enough to earn us some coin, just no horse-sense, he shala?

The Oathbound Lackey, Mercedes 1988

So they all rode eastward together; and if Darius was the only one of them with horse-sense enough to know that a stallion will whinny when he scents his favorite mare, I should think the Persians were lucky not to get one of the others.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

'It's plain horse-sense to plant an ob where it will cancel another one out, isn't it?'

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973

Shelby's sense was certainly very sound horse-sense and was rigidly abided by.

Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home