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:
- back down
- behind (someone's) back
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- on (someone's) back
- back to square one
- back to the drawing board
- work like a horse
- break the back of (something)
- stab (someone) in the back
- back out (of something)
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- bet on the wrong horse
- get on one's high horse