back the wrong horse
делать ставку не на того (человека)
In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- turn one's back on (someone or something)
- behind one's back
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- back down (from someone or something)
- scratch (someone's) back
- horse around
- get on one's high horse
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- back and forth
- behind (someone's) back
- back to the salt mines
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- stab (someone) in the back
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- change horses in midstream