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in the wrong
Idioms and Phrases
Mistaken, to blame. For example, The teacher was clearly in the wrong but refused to admit it , or Since he had driven straight through a red light, Jack was the one in the wrong . [c. 1400]Example Sentences
“We worked all last year to turn things around that were all going in the wrong direction,” he said of the efforts he undertook to reduce wait times on the agency’s 800 number and the backlog of disability cases.
Given that a hallmark of the Trump administration is the gulf between its appointees’ responsibilities and their qualifications for their jobs, it may be hard to pick out the quintessential example of the wrong person in the wrong place.
Meyers cites this story as a plain example of one party being in the wrong.
"Essentially, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time."
The dog was rescued from a backyard breeder and Lily tells us, if she and Hayden hadn't taken him in, there was a danger he'd have ended up in the wrong hands.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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