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 and forth
- change horses in midstream
- get (someone's) back up
- eat like a horse
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- scratch (someone's) back
- turn one's back on (someone or something)
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- hold one's horses
- back down (from someone or something)
- get off (someone's) back
- behind (someone's) back
- break the back of (something)
- off one's back
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)