horse sense

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I’m not saying she was Stephen Hawking, but she at least evinced a sort of horse sense, paired with grinning charisma, that you could imagine might make her an effective mayor or governor.

From Slate • Feb. 10, 2022

One might say they figured it just made good horse sense.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 2020

More likely, it was something in American Pharoah’s horse sense that told him the man in the suit was a weak specimen.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2019

“One of the all-time great horses in this era,” said Sherman, whose horse sense comes hard-earned.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2016

The estimates provide a good example of how numerical horse sense can check pseudoscientific ravings.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos