Dark horse

Usage examples of underdog.

Israel went from underdog to overdog, however, the mood of the European media shifted.

If I was in a situation where I was the underdog, I became the overdog as soon as possible.

The popular insurgent, then, although the underdog, may hold an edge both by retaining the initiative of attack and by virtue of a kind of defense that can be mimicked, but not reproduced, by a counterinsurgent state.

Maybe you should have tried a little harder to get me to take notice of Johansson instead of playing the romantic underdog.

Oh, he had Microsoft Explorer, too -- it had come preinstalled on his Pentium IV -- but Darren always favored the underdog.

The gypsies are getting some good odds, too, because they are apparently favoring underdogs.

Smug satisfaction that the kicker of underdogs had himself bitten the dust.

I heard you were up in Shreveport defending the underdogs of the world.

Shelby has any vices at all, unless you consider being the champion to underdogs a vice.

In that way he would give the underdogs, who might not say a word, some satisfaction.

The other, more complex, problem had to do with my natural out-front bias in favor of the McGovern candidacy -- which was not a problem at first, when George was such a hopeless underdog that his staffers saw no harm in talking frankly with any journalist who seemed friendly and interested -- but when he miraculously emerged as the front-runner I found myself in a very uncomfortable position.

Home and in my room that night, I write in my fresh new graduation autograph album, under YOUR FAVORITE MOTTO, Don't Step on the Underdog.

Applying the same work ethic, passion, and intensity that allowed him to excel on the playing field, Ennis quickly rose through the ranks of the blue-collar city's politicians, never afraid to speak his mind, always looking to go out on a limb to help the underdog.

Sumaya's testimony is bad, but has Torrez forgotten that young people usually vote for the underdog?