Today " don’t (or never) look a gift horse in the mouth" means don’t find fault with something that has been received as a gift or favor. Don’t be ungrateful when you receive a present, even if it’s not exactly what you wanted.
And during special days of the year or whenever anything bad happened, they would try to find fault within themselves and worship the Heavens for an answer.
But the caveat is that our circumstances are out of control, meaning that if we experience our circumstances as problematic, we find fault at something in which we ultimately have no say.
Ah! sir, I do indeed. It is a grievous affair to my poor girls, you must confess. Not that I mean to find fault with you, for such things, I know, are all chance in this world.
Its defenders retort that it aims only to help the federal government fulfil its obligations on immigration, and that only an administration that was deliberately neglecting them could find fault with it.
When you have the avoidant attachment style, you may often find faults in those around you, and this is more associated with a dismissive-avoidant attachment style.