Talk:Cart before the horse

Perspective

This article is descriptive and historical; but an analytical point-of-view is not well-developed yet. In expanding this subject, these writers make points that may be helpful:

Burrough-Boenisch, Joy. (2004). Righting English That's Gone Dutch, p. 123.s
Raines, James. C. (2008). Evidence Based Practice in School Mental Health, p. 91.
Stewart, Peter. (2010). Essential Radio Skills: How To Present A Radio Show, p. 214; excerpt, "By putting the cart before the horse, you use a comment to hook people into listening to the rest of the link .... By putting the horse before the cart, the listener knows all the information in the first sentence and they can mentally switch off ...."

Perhaps these sources can be cited in a future version of this article? --Ansei (talk) 15:43, 30 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Clive James in one of his books – I am trying to remember which, all my books are in store – has a eulogy or poem to a chap "pudding the carp before d'oeuvres": I think proably that was James' invention not the person he wrote the eulogy for. I can't RS it but others probably could. Si Trew (talk) 12:29, 15 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Examples

I think it would be helpful to include a few examples of this phrase in action--perhaps some historical uses of the expression.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:1506:600:5089:EBFA:6A:4127 (talk) 05:06, 29 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]