bet on the wrong horse
выбирать неверный курс, "поставить не на ту лошадь"
"I am sure you are betting on the wrong horse when you try to support that project."
Другие идиомы:
- hold one's horses
- horse around
- back the wrong horse
- dark horse
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- put the cart before the horse
- horse of a different color
- get off one's high horse
- horse trade
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- get on one's high horse
- change horses in midstream
- horse sense