Al amigo y al caballo, no apretarlo ni apurarlo. “Do not press or rush a friend or a horse.” Herón Pérez Martínez of El Colegio de Michoacán records the saying in a 2005 study of the horse and the woman in the Mexican refranero, the body of popular sayings.
Les das la mano y te toman el pie. “You give them your hand, and they take your foot.” In June 2022, a columnist in El Siglo de Torreón used the saying for people who “abusan de tu bondad o gentileza” (abuse your kindness or courtesy).