Sentence examples for cart ahead from inspiring English sources
It's disadvantageous to get the cart ahead of the horse.
TALK about putting the cart ahead of the donkey.
-"That's the kind of speculation that is getting the cart ahead of the horse," he said.
Asked if that meant she would shun such products, she raised her eyebrows and pushed her cart ahead.
While she wheeled the bundle of my mother behind me, I tossed hand soaps, sponges, and Swiffer sheets into the metal cart ahead.
No harm in trying, but don't put the cart ahead of the horse!
The cart is ahead of the horse, pulling it.
MICHAEL F. PETTINGER New York, Nov. 9, 2008 Fairness in the Election Re "In the '08 Horse Race, the Cart Pulls Ahead" (Nov. 2): The only thing "tricky" about election time for Times reporters is not how do they stay fair and balanced during election time, but how do they disguise the fact that they have been running interference for Barack Obama's campaign?
Waldron (1993, 63) gives the example of antiwar protesters organizing a rowdy demonstration near a Remembrance Day service; Wellman (1997, 33) offers the illustration of edging into a checkout line with a full cart, just ahead of a tired woman carrying triplets.
Some would say planning so far ahead is the definition of putting the cart before the horse.
Dealing with it ahead of an agreement was, he suggested, putting "the cart before the horse".
