put the cart before the horse
начать не с того конца, поступать шиворот-навыворот, "поставить телегу впереди лошади"
They put the cart before the horse and took the effect for the cause.
Другие идиомы:
- put (someone or something) out to pasture
- put (someone's) eye out
- put one's nose to the grindstone
- put flesh on (something)
- put one's toe in the water
- put one's cards on the table
- put one's foot down (about something)
- put on a brave face
- change horses in midstream
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- put words into (someone's) mouth
- put one's face on
- put weight on
- work like a horse
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone