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:

    “Before the leaves can mount again
    To fill the trees with another shade,
    They must go down past things coming up.
    They must go down into the dark decayed.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “People do not think themselves ugly, just as no horse thinks its face is long.”
    —Chinese proverb.