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get wrong en · VERB
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(transitive) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
Emily got three of the sums wrong in her maths test.
You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
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(Norfolk, Northumbria, often, with off) To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
‘I got wrong off my mum for showing her up and she told my dad when he got home and he gave me a great big wallop.’
2001, Fred Sedgwick, Teaching Literacy: A Creative Approach, Continuum, page 133:‘She's right. You'll get wrong off the War Ag, Muriel, man,’ Eileen said, gaping at her audacity.
2014, Annie Wilkinson, The Land Girls, Simon & Schuster:[…] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father […]
1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER Publishing Company, page 138When the silence had gone on a long time, Kath said, ‘I got wrong for saying nowt.’
1986, Pat Barker, The Century's Daughter, Virago; republished as Liza's England, 1996, page 238:
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