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get the wrong idea en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To get the wrong end of the stick
    • I’ve heard that lawyers’ children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
gotten the wrong idea Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
got the wrong idea Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
got the wrong idea Tense=Past lexicographic
getting the wrong idea Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
gets the wrong idea Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic