This is yet another example of putting the cart before the horse.

They are putting the cart before the horse, she said.

To do otherwise would be to put the cart before the horse.

We should not put the cart before the horse here.

That really would be putting the cart before the horse.

In other words, we are putting the cart before the horse.

This seems to me to be putting the cart before the horse, as we say.

I think this is putting the cart before the horse.

Here too, it is because we put the cart before the horse.

Yes, but is that not putting the cart before the horse?