put the cart before the horse
начать не с того конца, поступать шиворот-навыворот, "поставить телегу впереди лошади"
Пример использования идиомы put the cart before the horse:
They put the cart before the horse and took the effect for the cause.
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Другие идиомы:
- put one's heads together
- put (someone's) eye out
- put (lay) one's cards on the table
- put in one's two cents (worth)
- put one's shoulder to the wheel
- put (someone or something) out to pasture
- put one's money where one's mouth is
- get off one's high horse
- put (someone's) nose out of joint
- put the cat among the pigeons
- put one's thinking cap on
- on horseback
- wild horses could not drag (someone away)
- put one's head in a noose
- put one's hand to the plow