back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- back of beyond
- pat on the back
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- horse sense
- on (someone's) back
- behind one's back
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- back out (of something)
- straight from the horse's mouth
- have one's back to the wall
- get off one's high horse
- cover one's back
- back to square one
- work like a horse
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.