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dark horse
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
dark horse noun
plural dark horses
dark horse
noun
plural dark horses
Learner's definition of DARK HORSE
[count]
1
: a person (such as a politician), animal, or thing that competes in a race or other contest and is not expected to win出人意料的获胜者；“黑马”
- The Democrat from Utah has gone from being a dark horse to the front-runner in the campaign for President.这位犹他州的民主党人在总统竞选中从一匹“黑马”转变成票数领先者。
- The movie is a dark horse for the award.这部影片出人意料地获得了这个项奖。
2
British : a person who has interesting qualities or abilities that most people do not know about深藏不露的人
- He is a dark horse, but I did find out that he once played football professionally.他深藏不露，不过我确实查到他曾是橄榄球职业球员。
dark horse
noun
Example Sentences
The Democrat from Utah has gone from being a dark horse to the front-runner in the campaign for President. The movie is a dark horse for the award. He is a dark horse, but I did find out that he once played football professionally.
Recent Examples on the Web Could the Air-King be the next cultish outlier, the dark horse of the stainless steel sports watch parade? 
Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022 The Psyche proposal was a dark horse, as Elkins-Tanton had never headed up a NASA mission and her industrial partner had previously built spacecraft only for Earth orbit, not deep space. Marcia Bartusiak, Washington Post, 29 July 2022 The dark horse in this race is Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani, who recently purchased a British company, Faradion, for 100 million pounds. Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 16 June 2022 Wakanda Forever, unless another dark horse candidate is lurking in the background. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 July 2022 Garfield came to the White House as a dark horse candidate after a career as a scholar, war hero and congressman. cleveland, 15 July 2022 Until this grass-court season, few even rated him a dark horse anymore. Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022 Pardes Biosciences is a bit of a dark horse in the race for a COVID-19 pill. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021 Cara Condon was a dark horse heading into the 2022 Cheesemonger Invitational in Brooklyn last Sunday. New York Times, 17 June 2022 See More
Carol Besler, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2022 The Psyche proposal was a dark horse, as Elkins-Tanton had never headed up a NASA mission and her industrial partner had previously built spacecraft only for Earth orbit, not deep space. Marcia Bartusiak, Washington Post, 29 July 2022 The dark horse in this race is Reliance’s Mukesh Ambani, who recently purchased a British company, Faradion, for 100 million pounds. Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 16 June 2022 Wakanda Forever, unless another dark horse candidate is lurking in the background. Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 24 July 2022 Garfield came to the White House as a dark horse candidate after a career as a scholar, war hero and congressman. cleveland, 15 July 2022 Until this grass-court season, few even rated him a dark horse anymore. Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022 Pardes Biosciences is a bit of a dark horse in the race for a COVID-19 pill. Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2021 Cara Condon was a dark horse heading into the 2022 Cheesemonger Invitational in Brooklyn last Sunday. New York Times, 17 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1821, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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