back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- on (someone's) back
- back of beyond
- on horseback
- back and forth
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- behind (someone's) back
- have one's back to the wall
- back to the salt mines
- back in circulation
- put the cart before the horse
- dark horse
- cover one's back
- back to basics
- behind one's back
- off one's back