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dark horse
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Dark Horse is a 2005 Danish film directed by Dagur Kári about a young man, his best friend, and a girl. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival .
Wiktionary
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n. Someone who possesses talents or qualities that are not known or expected by others.
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n. a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly a racehorse about which little is known
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in politics, 1842, an image from horse racing, in which dark is used in its figurative sense of "unknown."\n\nMoonraker is called a "dark horse"; that is neither his sire nor dam is known. ["Pierce Egan's Book of Sports," London, 1832]
Usage examples of dark horse.
Before one of the largest shrubs, a spreading sweetbriar with small pink flowers and a fragrance wafting from it sweet as apples, there stood like a black brand the figure of the Rider on his tall dark horse.
Tom Veitch for helping me create the entire history of Exar Kun (so much, in fact, that we are writing his story and the Great Sith War in twelve issues of Dark Lords of the Sith to be published by Dark Horse Comics).
Ahead of her, on the dark horse, Cecelia seemed to be having no problems.
With that restraint, however, the dark horse stepped demurely from his stall with an air of innocence that Cecelia didn't believe for a moment.
Smart money seemed to be on a Kenyan, though there was an American who'd blown away the record for the Boston Marathon the previous year by almost half a minuteevidently a large margin for such a race-and a thirtyyear-old Dutchman who was the dark horse among the favorites.