Dark Horse

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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Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or horse:

    “The Past—the dark unfathom’d retrospect!
    The teeming gulf—the sleepers and the shadows!
    The past! the infinite greatness of the past!
    For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “What time she lifteth up herself on high, she scorneth the horse
    and his rider.
    Hast thou given the horse strength? hast thou clothed his neck with thunder?”
    —Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXIX, 17–19)