put the cart before the horse
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put the cart before the horse (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 puts the cart before the horse,現在分詞 putting the cart before the horse,一般過去時及過去分詞 put the cart before the horse)
- (俗語) 本末倒置
- 1898, Julian Hawthorne, 章號 1, 出自 The History of the United States:
- The hour had struck; and with it, as always, appeared the man. So it has ever been in the history of the world; though we, with characteristic vanity, uniformly put the cart before the horse, and declare that it is the man that brings the hour.
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- 1957 12月 2, “Corruption of the Mind”, 出自 Time:
- To attempt to remove the armaments before removing these substantive conflicts of interest is to put the cart before the horse.
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- 2005 7月 27, David D. Kirkpatrick, “Timing of Hearings and Vote Stalls Confirmation Talks”, 出自 New York Times, retrieved 6 Nov. 2008:
- Mr. Schumer said that the idea of agreeing to a date for a vote before the committee had held hearings was "to put the cart before horse."
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