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
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- have one's back to the wall
- off one's back
- scratch (someone's) back
- get on one's high horse
- horse trade
- back-to-back
- change horses in midstream
- hold one's horses
- back to square one
- on (someone's) back
- turn one's back on (someone or something)
- back to the drawing board
- stab (someone) in the back