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