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Welcome to English in a Minute!
Horses are beautiful animals and can be many different colors. But, what could this mean?
Dark Horse
Speaker A: Did you watch the film awards show?
Speaker B: I cannot believe “A Slug’s New Body” won for Best Children’s Science Movie in a Foreign Language.
Speaker A: I didn’t know that was a category.
Speaker B: Oh, it was definitely a dark horse. I thought “Cat Camp” would win. Didn’t you?
Speaker A: Oh yeah. Of course.
A “dark horse” is someone or something that’s not expected to win. But sometimes, they do! We use dark horse when talking about sports, politics or, as we heard, movie awards.
And that’s English in a Minute!
*This article has been edited and reprinted from VOA Learning English with permission from Voice of America (VOA) for use in English language materials.
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