Expressions with WRONG
The English language has a highly developed phraseology, so you need to know idioms and phrases, phrasal verbs, collocation, etc if you want to understand native speakers. The better you know them, the more natural your English will be. In that regard, let’s look at some super useful English idioms and phrases using the word “wrong”.Here is the list:
- The wrong way round/around
- Be in the wrong place at the wrong time
- Be on the wrong track
- Get off on the wrong foot
- Get the wrong end of the stick
- Fall into the wrong hands
- Get on the wrong side of someone
- The wrong way up
- Take something the wrong way
- Go wrong
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Expressions with WRONG
The wrong way round/around
If something is the wrong way round, it is in the wrong order.
- Of course your coffee mixer doesn’t work – you put the batteries the wrong way round.
- I have to remember not to put the printed papers the wrong way around.
Be in the wrong place at the wrong time
We say that someone is in the wrong place at the wrong time when they are involved in something bad or harmful not by their mistake, because of bad luck.
- That poor man was hit by a car by a drunk driver because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
- It is their bad luck to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Be on the wrong track
To be on the wrong track means to have the wrong idea about something and therefore you can’t succeed.
- The police thought they were on the wrong track when a new suspect appeared.
- You’ll never understand what really happened because you are on the wrong track.
Expressions with WRONG
Get/start off on the wrong foot
If you get off on the wrong foot, you make a bad start by doing something wrong.
- Lucy got off on the wrong foot with Sean when she told him to shut up in front of the audience.
- Cecile started off on the wrong foot with her boss by being rude to him. She didn’t know who he was.
Get the wrong end of the stick
If you get the wrong way of the stick, you don’t understand the situation very well.
- I guess that Darren got the wrong end of the stick when he thought that we were having a party.
- You got the wrong end of the stick. It wasn’t me who won the lottery, it was my friend!
Fall into the wrong hands
If something dangerous or secret is found and misused by someone who is not its owner, we say that it has fallen into the wrong hands.
- Governments are always concerned about their secrets not falling into the wrong hands.
- I can’t imagine what would happen to us if these documents fell into the wrong hands.
Get on the wrong side of someone
If someone does something to annoy you and make you have a bad opinion about them, then they get on the wrong side of you.
- I got on the wrong side of Linda by talking about her behind her back.
- If you get on the wrong side of the boss, he’ll find a way to punish you.
Expressions with WRONG
The wrong way up
If we say that something is the wrong way up, then its bottom is where its top should be.
- That box with the TV in it is the wrong way up.
- You are holding your phone the wrong way up.
Take something the wrong way
If you take something the wrong way, you feel offended because you misunderstood it.
- Mary didn’t want to answer in order not to be taken the wrong way.
- Whatever you tell her, she takes it the wrong way.
Go wrong
To go wrong means to make a mistake.
- When you are under stress, things can easily go wrong.
- Everything went wrong for the thief when a woman saw him stealing in the supermarket.
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