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English Idiom: Straight from the horse’s mouth
If you want or need the whole truth about something, it is better to get it straight from the horse’s mouth.
You need to get the information from someone who has direct, personal knowledge of the subject.
Everybody loves a rumour. Gossip flows through the grapevine at the workplace as water flows through a pipe.
The problem is that while there may be some truth to a rumour, it is not the complete truth.
When you get information straight from the horse’s mouth, you get the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth unless, of course, you are talking to a politician.
Everyone knows that politicians never give a direct answer to anything.
So there you have it.
If you want to get to the bottom of something, such as a rumour or story, get it straight from the horse’s mouth.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 79.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
