back the wrong horse

back the wrong horse
back the wrong horse
Fig. to support someone or something that cannot win or succeed. •

I don't want to back the wrong horse, but it seems to me that Jed is the better candidate.

Fred backed the wrong horse in the budget hearings.

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{v. phr.} To support a loser. * /In voting for George Bush, voters in 1992 were backing the wrong horse./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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