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 in circulation
- back down (from someone or something)
- back of beyond
- back and forth
- bet on the wrong horse
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- back to the drawing board
- straight from the horse's mouth
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- turn one's back on (someone or something)
- on horseback
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- stab (someone) in the back
- get off one's high horse
- work like a horse