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Proverbs and Phrases. to setor put the cart before the horse: to reverse the natural or proper order. †to be left out of the cart's arse: (see…
to put the plough before the oxen: to reverse the natural or proper order of something. Cf. cart, n. 5. Now rare.
intransitive. To invert the natural order; to make something topsy-turvy.