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cart before the horse

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(put) the cart before the horse
to do something that should happen later before other things. Barnhart is putting the cart before the horse by building a stadium before a team has agreed to play there.
See also: before, cart, horse
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The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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