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Dark horse - a bit more

Posted by James Briggs on April 25, 2005

In Reply to: Dark horse posted by R. Berg on April 25, 2005

: : I would like the meaning of dark horse please.

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This saying is said to go back to the Victorian politician Benjamin Disraeli who, apart from finding time to regularly become Prime Minister, also found time to write a novel called "The Young Duke". In the book there is a description of a horse race in which the two favourites cannot make the running. In the meanwhile "a dark horse...rushed past the grandstand in a sweeping triumph".

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