dark horse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who possesses talents or favorable characteristics that are not known or expected by others. idiomatic
    — ‘She’s a dark horse,’ he said. ‘She knows just as much about climbing mountains as you or I. In fact, she was ahead of me the whole time, and I lost her.’
  2. A candidate for an election who is nominated unexpectedly, without previously having been discussed or considered as a likely choice. idiomatic
    — That left Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69 — a quiet American dark horse who had, surprisingly, emerged in the evening’s vote — as a source of particular interest.
  3. A horse whose capabilities are not known.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, horse.

词形变化

dark horses plural

词源

Originally an allusion to an unknown horse with a dark coat winning a race, as used in the 1831 novel The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881).
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