back the wrong horse
常见例句
- If you back the wrong horse, you give your support to the losing side in something.
如果你力挺一批错误的马，你把你的支持给了失利的一方。 - Publishers, like other people, sometimes reject chances of backing the right horse, and stubbornly back the wrong one.
像其他人一样，出版商有时拒绝扶植大有前途的作家，而固执地对毫无希望的人大献殷勤。 - An academic study* has now tried to assemble some facts to test the long-held impression that the media usually back the wrong horse.
一项学术研究目前已综合一些要素来验证某一长期存在的印象——媒体总是（形如赌马中）“买错马”。 返回 back the wrong horse