back the wrong horse

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To support something or someone that later turns out to be unsuccessful.
    — This might mean that I waste vast amounts of time searching for a species only to find that it no longer counted when the new regime is in place. All that effort spent backing the wrong horse.

词形变化

backs the wrong horse present,singular,third-person backing the wrong horse participle,present backed the wrong horse participle,past backed the wrong horse past
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