back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- get off one's high horse
- back down
- on (someone's) back
- change horses in midstream
- back of beyond
- turn one's back on (someone or something)
- pat on the back
- horse trade
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- have one's back to the wall
- horse sense
- eat like a horse
- put the cart before the horse
- straight from the horse's mouth
- bet on the wrong horse