back the wrong horse idiom
下错了赌注；看错人；作了错误的决策
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. 做了多年的出版商，他很少有看走眼的时候。
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