back the wrong horse

基本解釋

If you back the wrong horse, you give your support to the losing side in something.
如果你力挺一批錯誤的馬，你把你的支持給了失利的一方。
Publishers, like other people, sometimes reject chances of backing the right horse, and stubbornly back the wrong one.
像其他人一樣，出版商有時拒絕扶植大有前途的作家，而固執(zhí)地對毫無希望的人大獻殷勤。
An academic study* has now tried to assemble some facts to test the long-held impression that the media usually back the wrong horse.
一項學(xué)術(shù)研究目前已綜合一些要素來驗證某一長期存在的印象——媒體總是（形如賭馬中）“買錯馬”。

to make the wrong decision and support a person or action that is later unsuccessful