back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- on horseback
- get on one's high horse
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- straight from the horse's mouth
- back up (someone or something)
- back in circulation
- get (someone's) back up
- back to the drawing board
- stab (someone) in the back
- behind (someone's) back
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- cover one's back
- have one's back to the wall
- horse of a different color
- break the back of (something)