back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- have one's back to the wall
- back on one's feet
- eat like a horse
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- pat on the back
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- horse of a different color
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- back-to-back
- cover one's back
- break the back of (something)
- back to the drawing board
- horse trade
- back and forth
- on horseback