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:
- eat like a horse
- back down (from someone or something)
- have one's back to the wall
- horse around
- behind one's back
- change horses in midstream
- turn one's back on (someone or something)
- scratch (someone's) back
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- put the cart before the horse
- work like a horse
- get off (someone's) back
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- bet on the wrong horse
- back and forth