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:
- back and forth
- back to square one
- give (someone) the shirt off one's back
- behind (someone's) back
- scratch (someone's) back
- lock the barn door after the horse is gone
- hold one's horses
- break the back of (something)
- back of beyond
- put one's back into (something)
- on (someone's) back
- back to the salt mines
- back on one's feet
- look a gift horse in the mouth
- have one's back to the wall