🐴 Horse
"Back the wrong horse"
Meaning
To support the person or plan that fails.
About the horse
Horses have long been work and racing animals, so their idioms describe effort, priorities, and stubborn resistance.
Example sentence
I backed the wrong horse when I chose that team to win.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
To support the person or plan that fails.
More horse idioms
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"Straight from the horse's mouth"
Information received directly from the person who knows the truth.
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"Dark horse"
A person who surprises everyone by doing very well.
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"Hold your horses"
Wait a moment; do not rush.
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"Eat like a horse"
To eat a lot.
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"A horse of a different color"
A completely different matter.
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"Flogging a dead horse"
Wasting effort on something that cannot succeed.