Dark horse meaning
What does the saying 'Dark horse' mean?
Idiom: Dark horse
Meaning:
If someone is a dark horse, they are a bit of a mystery and we don't know how they will react or perform.
Similar Idioms
- Left in the dark
- Putting the cart before the horse
- Flogging a dead horse
- On your high horse
- Eat like a horse
- Shot in the dark
- Close the stable door after the horse has bolted
- Could eat a horse
- Back the wrong horse
- From the horse's mouth
- Beating a dead horse
- Horse of a different color
- Horse trading
- Whistling in the dark
- Healthy as a horse
- Put the carriage before the horse
- Stalking horse
- Short horse soon curried
- All cats are grey in the dark
- In the dark
- Charley horse
- Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- Lock the stable door after the horse has bolted
- You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink
- Get back on the horse that bucked you
- A leap in the dark
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