back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- back down (from someone or something)
- back in circulation
- back and forth
- back to the salt mines
- back to square one
- back of beyond
- back out (of something)
- back down
- on horseback
- put the cart before the horse
- horse trade
- horse sense
- put one's back into (something)
- horse around
- back to the drawing board