A dark horse is a little-known person or thing that emerges to prominence, especially in a competition of some sort or a contestant that seems unlikely to succeed.
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“The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
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Go together like a horse and carriage
Dad was told by mother
You cant have one without the other.”
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