back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- get off one's high horse
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- eat like a horse
- have one's back to the wall
- dark horse
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- work like a horse
- back to square one
- back to basics
- scratch (someone's) back
- put one's back into (something)
- horse sense
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- straight from the horse's mouth
- on (someone's) back