DARK HORSE

«темная лошадка»

dark horse: translation

also-ran, aspirant, baby kisser, bare possibility, candidate, defeated candidate, dud, enigma, favorite son, fighting chance, frontier, frontiers of knowledge, gambling chance, hardly a chance, hopeful, hundred-to-one shot, improbability, lame duck, little chance, little opportunity, long odds, long shot, matter of ignorance, mystery, n, off chance, office seeker, outside chance, political hopeful, poor bet, poor lookout, poor possibility, poor prospect, presidential timber, puzzle, remote possibility, riddle, running mate, sealed book, slim chance, small chance, stalking-horse, terra incognita, the incalculable, the strange, the unfamiliar, the unknowable, the unknown, unexplored ground, unexplored territory, unknown quantity, unlikelihood, x, z

dark horse: translation

Fig. someone or something whose abilities, plans, or feelings are little known to others. (From a race horse about which little or nothing is known.) •

It's difficult to predict who will win the prize—there are two or three dark horses in the tournament.

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Everyone was surprised at the results of the election. The dark horse won.

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dark horse: translation

Fig. someone or something whose abilities, plans, or feelings are little known to others. (From a race horse about which little or nothing is known.) •

It's difficult to predict who will win the prize—there are two or three dark horses in the tournament.

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Everyone was surprised at the results of the election. The dark horse won.

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dark horse: übersetzung

■ A participant in a match or a competition about whom relatively little is known but who is believed by some observers to have a chance of unexpected success.

Geheimfavorit m

■ Mannschaft, die nicht zu den eigentlichen Favoriten gezählt wird, der aber von einem kleinen Kreis an Fußballkennern dennoch Siegesaussichten in einem Spiel oder Wettbewerb eingeräumt werden.

1) общ. "темная лошадка", неизвестный соперник [партнер\]

2) пол. "темная лошадка" (малоизвестное лицо, выступающее в качестве компромиссного кандидата на какую-л. высокую государственную должность, устраивающего все противоборствующие стороны)

Dark Horse: übersetzung

Dark|horse, (auch:) Dark Horse ['da:k 'hɔ:s], das; - -, - -s [...sɪz; engl. = dunkles Pferd, aus: dark = dunkel, ungewiss u. horse = Pferd] (Jargon): noch nicht bekanntes Rennpferd.

dark horse [ˏdɑ:kˊhɔ:s] n

тёмная лоша́дка