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:
- eat like a horse
- get off one's high horse
- on horseback
- put the cart before the horse
- back the wrong horse
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- get on one's high horse
- change horses in midstream
- horse of a different color
- straight from the horse's mouth
- dark horse
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- work like a horse
- hold one's horses
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone