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back the wrong horse idiom to make the wrong decision and support a person or action that is later unsuccessful: 下错了赌注;看错人;作了错误的决策 In all his years as a book publisher, he rarely backed the wrong horse.做了多年的出版商,他很少有看走眼的时候。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Wrong aberrant aberrantly abnormal amiss anomalous false false negative false positive falsely flawed invalidly irregularly liberal liberally mal- quarrel wrongheaded wrongheadedly wrongly X, x
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