Sentence examples for on the wrong horse from inspiring English sources

Reason 3 (and this is the big one): You could be placing a very big bet on the wrong horse.

Unfortunately, they bet on the wrong horse.

"That's like saying I bet on the wrong horse".

You could be placing a very big bet on the wrong horse".

But they'd bet on the wrong horse: It would have been smarter, he says, to have cloned Microsoft's DOS program, which came to dominate the market.

Visitors will see instruments of war, as well as recruiting officers trying to persuade Staten Islanders that they are betting on the wrong horse in the conflict.

All of them have the wrong cart in front of the wrong horse.

The company hitched its cart to the wrong horse.

At this point, it no longer matters whether you are part of the mob majority that believes Thomas to be the root of all basketball evil or that he just put his money on the wrong horses (namely Stephon Marbury and Eddy Curry).

Mr. Lykke of STA said that a number of companies had "bet on the wrong horses" in places they did not know well, Jamaica among them, and discovered that there were no hotel rooms for their student clients when they arrived.

Mind you, it didn't really matter: turned out I'd bet on the wrong horse-Ruler of the World-which is just further proof that you should never judge a horse by its clearly optimistic name.