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a dark horse 1. a person who does not tell other people about their ideas or skills and who surprises people by doing something that they do not expect. I didn't know Linda had written a novel. She's a bit of a dark horse, isn't she? 2. a person who wins a race or competition although no one expected them to. 17-year-old Karen Pickering could also be a dark horse for (= she could win) a medal in the European Championships. (sometimes + for) |
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For one afternoon at least, awards-season hopefuls -- front runners and dark horses alike -- shared an equal footing. I thought Tom Warger's article ("The Dark Horses of Campus Computing," October) about new technologies and services on University campuses was well done. So the drama figures to swing back to the AL, and the Beltran bidding could eventually come down to another highly-publicized tug of war with Boston and the Yankees, with some very dark horses like the Angels and Baltimore figuring in. |
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