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:
- cover one's back
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- back-to-back
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- back on one's feet
- back to basics
- break the back of (something)
- back out (of something)
- back and forth
- hold one's horses
- get (someone's) back up
- put the cart before the horse
- scratch (someone's) back
- behind one's back