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:
- cover one's back
- bet on the wrong horse
- back-to-back
- get (someone's) back up
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
- dark horse
- back to the salt mines
- back to square one
- horse of a different color
- scratch (someone's) back
- on horseback
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- put one's back into (something)
- put the cart before the horse
- have one's back to the wall