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 one's hands on (something)
- put one's best foot forward
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- change horses in midstream
- put one's head in a noose
- horse trade
- put hair on one's chest
- put in one's two cents (worth)
- put (someone's) nose out of joint
- put words into (someone's) mouth
- horse of a different color
- put one's finger on (something)
- back the wrong horse
- put one's nose to the grindstone
- put flesh on (something)