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dark horse

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dark horse
Fig. someone or something whose abilities, plans, or feelings are little known to others. (From a race horse about which little or nothing is known.) It's difficult to predict who will win the prize—there are two or three dark horses in the tournament. Everyone was surprised at the results of the election. The dark horse won.
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The third, a bit of a dark horse from the first, was at the end of eighteen months something of a dark horse still to the department.
 
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