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 words into (someone's) mouth
- put (something) on hold
- straight from the horse's mouth
- put one's thinking cap on
- put ideas into (someone's) head
- get on one's high horse
- put on one's thinking cap
- put one's foot down (about something)
- back the wrong horse
- put one's toe in the water
- put in one's two cents (worth)
- put one's head on the block for (someone or something)
- on horseback
- put (something) in mothballs
- put one's cards on the table