🐴 Horse
"Dark horse candidate"
Meaning
Someone who unexpectedly becomes a strong competitor.
About the horse
Horses have long been work and racing animals, so their idioms describe effort, priorities, and stubborn resistance.
Example sentence
The quiet student became the dark horse candidate for class leader.
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Which idiom means...
Someone who unexpectedly becomes a strong competitor.
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.