back the wrong horse
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Пример использования идиомы back the wrong horse:
In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
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Другие идиомы:
- eat like a horse
- break the back of (something)
- stab (someone) in the back
- put one's back into (something)
- get (someone's) back up
- back to square one
- horse sense
- back out (of something)
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- horse trade
- on horseback
- change horses in midstream
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- scratch (someone's) back
- behind one's back