Synonyms for dark horse
| Grammar : Noun |
Top 10 synonyms for dark horse
Définition of dark horse
Origin :- in politics, 1842, an image from horse racing, in which dark is used in its figurative sense of "unknown."
- Moonraker is called a "dark horse"; that is neither his sire nor dam is known. ["Pierce Egan's Book of Sports," London, 1832]
- noun remote possibility
- Would any dark horse, at the last moment, enter to divide the interest?
- Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed
- As an invalid she was taken on board The Dark Horse and confined to her cabin.
- Extract from : « A Coin of Edward VII » by Fergus Hume
- But the difficulty was that none of the crew knew the looks of The Dark Horse.
- Extract from : « A Coin of Edward VII » by Fergus Hume
- He was the first presidential "dark horse," and indeed hardly that.
- Extract from : « Martin Van Buren » by Edward M. Shepard
- Heifetz, however, may be the dark horse in the modern fiddle sweepstakes.
- Extract from : « Unicorns » by James Huneker
- Oh, yes, I agreed to bring in a dark horse, and I'll bring him in all right.
- Extract from : « A Knight of the Cumberland » by John Fox Jr.
- But it struck me, somehow, it might be a dark horse, so I made a bid—and got it for only a sovereign!
- Extract from : « The Brass Bottle » by F. Anstey
- On another occasion Malmesbury speaks of Gladstone as ‘a dark horse.’
- Extract from : « The Real Gladstone » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- If he's a dark horse he might rook me at billiards or bridge.
- Extract from : « A Traitor's Wooing » by Headon Hill
- I had never heard of Jazz in those days: Jazz was decidedly a dark horse.
- Extract from : « The Iron Puddler » by James J. Davis
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