dark horse
малоизвестный кандидат
It happens so that a dark horse candidate may get elected senator.
Другие идиомы:
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- work like a horse
- eat like a horse
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)
- straight from the horse's mouth
- horse of a different color
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- bet on the wrong horse
- get off one's high horse
- hold one's horses
- horse around
- put the cart before the horse
- horse trade
- on horseback