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:
- get off one's high horse
- horse sense
- dark horse
- horse of a different color
- back the wrong horse
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- work like a horse
- horse around
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- eat like a horse
- put the cart before the horse
- get on one's high horse
- horse trade
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)