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