back the wrong horse
Definition
› to make the wrong decision and support a person or action that is later unsuccessful: In all his years as a book publisher, he rarely backed the wrong horse.Wrong
(Definition of back the wrong horse from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Accurate and exact
- Approximate
- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Correcting and mending
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Making mistakes
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
- Unsuitable and unacceptable
- Wanting everything to be right
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Synonyms and related words:
- aberrant adjective
- abnormal adjective
- amiss adjective
- awry adjective, adverb
- be barking up the wrong tree idiom
- flawed adjective
- gross adjective (UNACCEPTABLE)
- grossly adverb
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise adjective
- impropriety noun
- invalid adjective
- irregular adjective (RULE)
- mal- prefix
- mis- prefix
- mistaken adjective
- off beam adjective
- quarrel with sth phrasal verb
- wrong adjective (NOT CORRECT)
- wrongly adverb
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