学了个idiom:“put the cart ahead of the horse”:

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cart is a vehicle that is ordinarily pulled by a horse, so to put the cart before the horse is an analogy for doing things in the wrong order. ... The figure of speech means doing things the wrong way round or with the wrong emphasis. The idiom is about confusing cause and effect.