back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- horse trade
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- back of beyond
- cover one's back
- get on one's high horse
- back out (of something)
- get off (someone's) back
- back to square one
- work like a horse
- turn one's back on (someone or something)
- horse around
- on horseback
- scratch (someone's) back
- get off one's high horse
- put the cart before the horse