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under the impression
Idioms and Phrases
Thinking, assuming, or believing something, as in I was under the impression that they were coming today . This idiom often suggests that the idea or belief one had is mistaken. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
But he met and consulted with an autistic patient and the patient’s mother, who apparently was under the impression that he was a doctor.
But no one, at USC or elsewhere, is under the impression that the Trojans can simply plug someone in place of one of college basketball’s brightest stars either.
She "remained under the impression that her parents had bought the property for her", Sir Laurie added, but had to correct the record when she became a government minister.
Union and Harvey seem to be under the impression that they’re audience conduits instead of coddled suckers.
The Old Bailey heard the victim, who was aged 18 at the time, had been under the impression she was attending a roller disco with friends at Harrow Leisure Centre on 10 February last year.
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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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