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