back the wrong horseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

back the wrong horse (third-person singular simple present backs the wrong horse, present participle backing the wrong horse, simple past and past participle backed the wrong horse)

1. To support something or someone that later turns out to be unsuccessful.

   Synonyms: pick the wrong horse, choose the wrong horse

   Antonym: back the right horse

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 32:

     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.