back the wrong horse
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Пример использования идиомы back the wrong horse:
In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
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Другие идиомы:
- get off (someone's) back
- behind (someone's) back
- get off one's high horse
- put one's back into (something)
- back to the salt mines
- back to the drawing board
- cover one's back
- back to square one
- change horses in midstream
- horse of a different color
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- break the back of (something)
- pat on the back
- back of beyond
- have one's back to the wall