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