Sample Sentences forcart before the horse (auto-selected)
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Trying to pick out the furniture before the house plans are even finalized is putting the cart before the horse.cart before the horse = idiom meaning "to do things in reverse of their logical order"
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No, now you're putting the cart before the horse.† (source)
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You are inclined to put the cart before the horse.† (source)
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The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.† (source)
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I was myself so much more antecedently conscious of my figures than of their setting—a too preliminary, a preferential interest in which struck me as in general such a putting of the cart before the horse.† (source)
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I had the cart before the horse, Davos said.† (source)
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