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