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back the wrong horse

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[back the wrong horse] {v. phr.}

To support a loser.

* /In voting for George Bush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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