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6 September, 05:16

Many nineteenth-century American coinages are metaphors. What is meant by dark horse?

a catastrophic event

an unexpected winner

a sign of war or death

a good investment

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  1. 6 September, 07:57
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    an unexpected winner.
  2. 6 September, 08:44
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    A dark horse is an unexpected winner. Someone who wins something completely unexpectedly, out of nowhere, no one would have believed that they would be a winner. The expression was originally used in horse racing as slang to describe a horse that wins that no one would have bet on to win.
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