back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- hold one's horses
- horse sense
- horse around
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- put the cart before the horse
- cover one's back
- change horses in midstream
- put one's back into (something)
- back and forth
- break the back of (something)
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- off one's back
- back on one's feet
- dark horse
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)