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Put the Cart Before the Horse


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Sources:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/put-the-cart-before-the-horse.html
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/put%20the%20cart%20before%20the%20horse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cart_before_the_horse
https://www.theidioms.com/put-the-cart-before-the-horse/
https://books.google.com/ngrams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian
https://www.theoi.com/Text/LucianDialoguesDead1.html
“Cart Before the Horse.” A Hog on Ice: And Other Curious Expressions, by Charles Earle Funk and Tom Funk, Quill, 2001. 
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/put-the-cart-before-the-horse.html
https://thegoodgamecompany.com/project/idiom-addict/

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