the cart before the horse

(put) the cart before the horse

to do something that should happen later before other things Barnhart is putting the cart before the horse by building a stadium before a team has agreed to play there.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ber	BER	Yiddish
Zahid	-	Arabic
Sankar	-	Indian, Malayalam, Bengali
Narcissus	nar-SIS-əs (English)	Greek Mythology (Latinized), Late Roman, Biblical
Dawson	['dɔ:sn]
Ioann	-	Russian