‘She’s a dark horse,’ he said. ‘She knows just as much about climbing mountains as you or I. In fact, she was ahead of me the whole time, and I lost her.’
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Dark horse
Synonyms for "dark horse" (61 found)
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frontiers of knowledgegambling chancehardly a chancehopefulhundred-to-one shotimprobabilitylame ducklittle chancelittle opportunitylong oddslong shotmatter of ignorancemysterynoff chanceoffice seekeroutside chancepolitical hopeful
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poor betpoor lookoutpoor possibilitypoor prospectpresidential timberpuzzleremote possibilityriddlerunning matesealed bookslim chancesmall chancestalking horsestalking-horseterra incognitathe incalculablethe strangethe unfamiliarthe unknowablethe unknown
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As she pulled the door closed behind her, she heard the nurse say, “Well! You’re a dark horse, I must say! Do you know that extraordinary-looking girl?”
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“Well!” Genevieve laughs – the kind of bright, trilling laugh you give when you’re really quite annoyed about something. “Ed, you are a dark horse! I had no idea you had a girlfriend!”
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That left Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, 69 — a quiet American dark horse who had, surprisingly, emerged in the evening’s vote — as a source of particular interest.
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