back the wrong horse
基本解释
- 下错赌注
英汉例句
- 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”。
双语例句
英英字典
- to make the wrong decision and support a person or action that is later unsuccessful