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back the wrong horse

verb

Definitions

  1. To support something or someone that later turns out to be unsuccessful.

    • This might mean that I waste vast amounts of time searching for a species only to find that it no longer counted when the new regime is in place. All that effort spent backing the wrong horse.

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