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 foot in one's mouth
- put on one's thinking cap
- put one's finger on (something)
- put on the dog
- put hair on one's chest
- put a bug in (someone's) ear
- on horseback
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- straight from the horse's mouth
- put in one's oar
- hold one's horses
- put the cat among the pigeons
- put (something) in mothballs
- bet on the wrong horse
- you can lead a horse to water (but you can't make it drink)