to look for problems where there are none
A professora ficou procurando chifre em cabeça de cavalo, mas não encontrou nada.
The teacher kept looking for problems where there were none, but found nothing.
The expression has no documented historical origin; its force comes from the absurd picture it paints. A horse simply has no horns, so to go looking for a chifre em cabeça de cavalo — "a horn on a horse's head" — is to hunt for something that cannot possibly be there.
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