back the wrong horse
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In voting for Senator Plush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse.
Другие идиомы:
- on horseback
- back-to-back
- back out (of something)
- put the cart before the horse
- back to square one
- back down
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- have one's back to the wall
- back in circulation
- eat like a horse
- put one's back into (something)
- back and forth
- scratch (someone's) back
- horse of a different color
- off one's back