I think the cart is a bit before the horse here.

But of course that's the cart before the horse again.

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

"But let us not put the barn door before the horse."

This is very much a matter of the cart getting before the horse.

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

We should not put the cart before the horse here.

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

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

Once again the cart has been put before the horse.