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 (someone) through
- hold one's horses
- put ideas into (someone's) head
- on horseback
- bet on the wrong horse
- put one's mind to (something)
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- horse of a different color
- put (something) in mothballs
- put one's hand to the plow
- put one's finger on (something)
- get on one's high horse
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- put one's shoulder to the wheel
- put (someone's) eye out