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:

    “No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud,
    Their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

    “Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of “Emergency”. It was a tactic of Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini.... The invasion of New Deal Collectivism was introduced by this same Trojan horse.”
    —Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)