I.adjectiveCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a false/wrong move (=made by mistake)
▪ One wrong move and the business might never recover.
a false/wrong move (=in the wrong direction)
▪ One false move, and she’d fall over the edge.
a wrong/false/mistaken assumption
▪ Both theories are based on a single wrong assumption.
a wrong/misleading impression
▪ The advertisement gave a misleading impression of the product.
an incorrect/wrong diagnosis
▪ The doctors apparently made an incorrect diagnosis.
be in the wrong gear
▪ The straining noises from the engine told him that he was in the wrong gear.
came out all wrong (=not in the way I intended)
▪ I tried to explain everything to her, but it came out all wrong.
dead right/wrong
▪ You’re dead wrong, so let me handle this.
fall into the wrong hands
▪ We must not let these documents fall into the wrong hands.
fundamentally wrong
▪ The conclusions of the report are fundamentally wrong.
get your facts wrong
▪ It’s no use putting together a beautifully-written argument if you get your facts wrong.
go badly wrong (=go wrong in a serious way)
▪ Their election campaign had gone badly wrong.
gone horribly wrong
▪ The plan had gone horribly wrong.
guess right/correctly/wrong
▪ If you guess correctly, you have another turn.
in the right/wrong frame of mind
▪ You have to be in the right frame of mind to play well.
morally wrong
▪ What you did wasn’t illegal, but it was morally wrong.
not far off/out/wrong (=close to being correct)
▪ I guessed it would cost $100 and it was $110, so I was not far out.
nothing wrong
▪ There’s nothing wrong with the data.
prove sb wrong/right
▪ See if you can prove me wrong.
sb's calculations are wrong/inaccurate
▪ Some of our calculations were wrong.
seriously wrong
▪ I was worried there was something seriously wrong with me.
something wrong (=a problem)
▪ I think there’s something wrong with the phone.
spell sth wrong/wrongly
▪ You’ve spelled my name wrong.
take the first/a wrong etc turn (=go along the first etc road)
▪ I think we took a wrong turn coming out of town.
▪ Take the second turn on the left.
taken...wrong turning
▪ He must have taken a wrong turning in the dark.
the right/wrong answer
▪ Do you know the right answer to this question?
the right/wrong choice
▪ I think you’ve made the right choice.
the right/wrong direction
▪ Are you sure this is the right direction for Shipton?
the right/wrong kind
▪ It wasn’t the right kind of holiday for me.
the wrong conclusion
▪ Reporters saw the couple together and leapt to the wrong conclusion.
the wrong decision
▪ I thought I'd made the wrong decision marrying Jeff.
the wrong order
▪ The pages had been put in the wrong order.
the wrong signals (=ones that do not give a true account of a situation)
▪ Reducing the penalty for marijuana use perhaps sends the wrong signal to teenagers.
the wrong way
▪ There is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
the wrong way
▪ He had ended up going the wrong way down a one-way street.
wrong
▪ Unfortunately all the advice they gave me was wrong.
wrong/false
▪ He was jailed for providing false information to the police.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
▪ It was then that things had gone badly wrong.
▪ By the late seventies many observers were concluding that something had gone badly wrong with initially well-motivated regulation.
▪ How did things go so badly wrong so quickly?
▪ If one accepts Levitt's analysis, Hoover got their marketing badly wrong.
▪ When Rebecca emerged into the sunlight, it was clear that something was badly wrong.
▪ Where on this conjoined road of shared experiences did the Prime Minister go so badly wrong and become a Tory?
▪ That alone would have been enough to show something was badly wrong.
▪ Since then, despite deep and life changing bonds being formed, some relationships have at times threatened to go badly wrong.
horribly
▪ But then its aspirations all went horribly wrong.
▪ Doctors feared an air rifle pellet had pierced his brain when the joke went horribly wrong.
▪ The initial experiment went horribly wrong.
▪ And how can you guarantee a reasonable level of support in case something does go horribly wrong?
▪ It could have gone horribly wrong.
▪ But what are the chances that something might go horribly wrong?
▪ Negotiations, in the hands of the inept or inexperienced, can go horribly wrong.
▪ The whole plan had gone horribly wrong, but when?
morally
▪ Such testimony was not necessarily regarded as morally wrong.
▪ It would be morally wrong to do otherwise.
▪ Why is insider dealing morally wrong?
▪ On the other hand, the child who has some expectation that Lying will go unpunished sees nothing morally wrong with lying.
▪ The assertion that some particular type of conduct is morally wrong because it is may appear unsatisfactory but it is unchallengeable.
▪ It follows that it is wrong to convict and punish some one who has done nothing morally wrong.
▪ It is on this basis that many see insider dealing as morally wrong.
▪ I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour, as though I was doing something morally wrong.
quite
▪ If that is the reason then it is quite wrong.
▪ It would be quite wrong to suggest that the only influence on mate choice is relative familiarity.
▪ Paul had been quite wrong to call Michele cold and unfeeling.
▪ Eisenhower was quite wrong to worry.
▪ It may be difficult, but it is not complicated, and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong.
▪ An absolute knowledge for it, and I see the picture of it, and it's quite wrong.
▪ You're quite wrong, Harriet.
▪ It would, for example, be quite wrong to imagine that opposition to the Copernican theory derived only from religious prejudice.
seriously
▪ And by summer 1987 - still a year before Barlow Clowes was closed - it was obvious that something was seriously wrong.
▪ We would call in a specialist and try to find out if there was anything seriously wrong.
▪ What does matter is that something seems seriously wrong with Gaia.
▪ And I think I must conclude that, in spite of the well-established format, something is going seriously wrong here.
▪ Nothing seriously wrong, but she had been sick a lot, slept badly from indigestion, and was disappointed with herself.
▪ They said there'd better be something seriously wrong with me.
▪ It means that we're putting things right when things have gone seriously wrong.
very
▪ Immediately we realise that something is very wrong.
▪ Something was wrong, very wrong.
▪ The whole thing could go very wrong.
▪ The conclusion was inevitable: there must be something very wrong with a system in which such faults were normal.
▪ When things went wrong in this kind of game, they went very wrong.
▪ You see him there and you know something is very wrong.
▪ If he accepted that Celia had been driven to taking her life, it meant there was something very wrong with his.
▪ But to my ear, there is something very wrong with the way Vasquez spins it.
■ NOUN
answer
▪ There are no right or wrong answers to these questions.
▪ With contemporary art, there is not always a right or wrong answer.
▪ The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly.
▪ They found no clearly right and wrong answers in dealing with people.
▪ But it's the wrong answer.
▪ Conversely, they attached little value to questions to which there were simply short right or wrong answers.
▪ Note that there are no right or wrong answers and that your answers are entirely anonymous.
▪ A number of wrong answers are detailed at the top of these pages.
decision
▪ Secondly, central bankers, like other human beings, can take the wrong decisions.
▪ It was not necessarily the wrong decision.
▪ All the wrong decisions of Preston's life had come from feeling vulnerable.
▪ While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations, they found many were making the wrong decisions.
▪ With hindsight in Andrew Hagans case they made the wrong decision.
▪ Mr Major must be a man with a beleaguered mentality - not thinking particularly straight, tending to take the wrong decisions.
▪ If sometimes they're the wrong decisions ... too bad.
direction
▪ But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction.
▪ How can so much movement in the wrong direction be accomplished in one year?
▪ He urged him to go to the local hotel, only twelve miles in the wrong direction.
▪ You went the wrong direction five times a day!
▪ I feel only that we have taken a wrong direction somewhere, and are blindly stumbling on because our leaders blindfold us.
▪ But I am heavier and headed in the wrong direction.
▪ Apparently, one out of every 16 signposts at crossroads in the region are pointing in the wrong direction.
▪ He could hear the old man rummaging in there, completely unaware that things were now somehow turned in the wrong direction.
end
▪ Watcher, lamppost, fancy being on the wrong end of a chat?
▪ A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end, ignoring the arrows and signs.
▪ She looked at the singer and his wife as if from the wrong end of a telescope.
▪ And the wrong end of the stick.
▪ The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work.
▪ Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope.
▪ He'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city.
▪ But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope, muted and unreal.
foot
▪ She likes to see the fastening, which means that for convenience, the shoe ends up on the wrong foot.
▪ We got off on the wrong foot the other day and it was my fault.
▪ Your weight was on the wrong foot.
▪ Unfortunately, Pope got off on the wrong foot with his new troops.
▪ That's what I did - got off on the wrong foot.
▪ Mind you, the boots are on wrong feet which makes us smile - cross-legged feat!
▪ Many women, through no fault of their own, appear to start off on the wrong foot.
▪ In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot.
hand
▪ A crossed cheque therefore gives some protection against fraud if it falls into the wrong hands.
▪ Pentagon officials say they have already had some success reducing the risk that nuclear materials will fall into the wrong hands.
▪ It's surprising what can become dangerous in the wrong hands.
▪ Another worry is that nuclear material from defunct nuclear power plants and dismantled nuclear weapons might end up in the wrong hands.
▪ And images of Kurds on tape could fall into the wrong hands.
▪ In my haste I had shoved the wrong hand into the wrong pocket and pulled out the wrong ball!
▪ I will never allow Kirsty to fall into the wrong hands.
▪ All the excess food is in the wrong places or in the wrong hands.
idea
▪ People have quite the wrong idea about vampires, you see.
▪ We have an entirely wrong idea of ourselves through the pictures in our minds.
▪ A lot of people get the wrong idea.
▪ She further offended doctors by clinging to patently wrong ideas.
▪ People have got the wrong idea about this one.
▪ Vitalism, like every wrong idea, contains a useful sliver of truth.
▪ People often got the wrong idea about Nanny Ogg, and she took care to see that they did.
▪ Too much makeup will give the boys the wrong idea.
impression
▪ He was beginning to get entirely the wrong impression, and that really annoyed - and disturbed - her.
▪ You know we got the wrong impression of a revolution.
▪ We now accept that the report was based upon inaccurate information and conveyed completely the wrong impression about Linford.
▪ They gave the wrong impression, sent the wrong signal.
▪ And if all that sounds a bit pious, I've created the wrong impression.
▪ Mr Fallon says any move to make Darlington a development area would create a wrong impression.
▪ Besides, the words could be construed as flirtatious, and she didn't want him getting the wrong impression again.
▪ The scientists involved blame the press and its lurid headlines for giving people the wrong impression about Zeta.
man
▪ She's a sexy, cheerful, lively and uninhibited girl who married the wrong man.
▪ The police had summonsed the wrong man, and the court dismissed the case against him.
▪ How terrible it must be to marry the wrong man!
▪ By the time Sir Humphrey sat down few people in that court could have felt that Simmons had arrested the wrong man.
▪ The story about Murray shooting the wrong man.
▪ Why did she have to meet the wrong man, and one who was so strongly attracted to her?
▪ And so he had received the call-which anyway had been destined for the wrong man.
number
▪ Perhaps it had been a wrong number after all.
▪ However, my experience is that consolidating down to one is exactly the wrong number.
▪ Usually there were no calls save the occasional wrong number.
▪ If you are calling to report that your cable is out, you have the wrong number.
▪ That might not have been a wrong number.
▪ Of course it might be no more wrong than a wrong number.
▪ A wrong number would be the best possible result.
▪ If it was a wrong number, no harm had been done.
place
▪ I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
▪ Occasionally, a Staff Pro guard is simply the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
▪ A glimpse convinces the men then that they have come to the wrong place.
▪ Some innocent, he supposed, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
reason
▪ The Catholic arguments confuse the issue, but this time, for all the wrong reasons, the Pope is infallible.
▪ Many do, but often for the wrong reasons.
▪ This unlikely concoction was one of the more important pharmacological advances in the history of medicine, albeit for the wrong reasons.
▪ I realized that most of them were there for the wrong reasons.
▪ In addition, it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons.
▪ The issue of waiver is particularly important where a buyer rejects the goods for a wrong reason.
▪ Other people, he thought, probably found him funny, but funny for the wrong reasons.
▪ I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons.
side
▪ Stitch a plain seam on the wrong side of the fabric.
▪ For all I knew, I was firing on the wrong side of the trail.
▪ And she's the wrong side of fifty.
▪ He seemed to know about it, at least, the wrong side of it.
▪ Like Dora Chance in Wise Children, she enjoyed the view from the wrong side of the tracks.
▪ A lot of nonsense followed about etiquette and right sides and wrong sides.
▪ Now it looks as if the wrong side won.
▪ A machine fitted on the wrong side will be inefficient and wear out quickly.
thing
▪ In the garden in her white dress, she knew she had done the wrong thing.
▪ This was the wrong thing to say.
▪ Why did she keep reacting like this, and saying the wrong thing?
▪ He decided to do a wrong thing in a very misguided way which is good which is in defense of human life.
▪ Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing, she thought to herself.
▪ He always seemed to say innocently exactly the wrong thing at the most inopportune moment.
▪ At breakfast, a dozy waitress brings the wrong things.
▪ Maybe it was the wrong thing to do.
time
▪ I was in love with her at the wrong time.
▪ This may be the wrong time for the party to avert its gaze.
▪ I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
▪ His brother-in-law David Chandler lives in Swindon: He says he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
▪ Occasionally, a Staff Pro guard is simply the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
▪ Yet it seems they keep doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, according to the papers.
tree
▪ In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree.
▪ However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree.
▪ People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree.
▪ They have maybe barked up the wrong tree.
▪ Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree?
▪ Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree.
▪ Unfortunately the succeeding owners chopped the wrong trees down!
turn
▪ I took a wrong turn out of town.
▪ He took a wrong turn in his life, he concludes.
▪ Their chances of survival vanished the moment they stumbled into the procession; one wrong turn and that was it.
▪ There even have been reports that he took a wrong turn to get there.
▪ How cruel to reflect upon the wrong turns and unsought circumstances of an unlucky life.
▪ We haven't taken one wrong turn or had one row since getting in.
turning
▪ He must have taken a wrong turning in the dark.
▪ He took a couple of wrong turnings in the gloom and was angry when he reached Jacqui's flat.
▪ In Bechar, we took a wrong turning and drove to the gates of an army barracks.
▪ Harrington's platoon on a wrong turning, heading in the direction of Serre.
▪ Wherever he looked, he saw human beings taking the wrong turning.
▪ We took one wrong turning - Vanessa firmly blamed me - but it was soon corrected.
▪ Many wrong turnings in discussion and communication in general can be avoided, as unnecessary difficulties are pre-empted.
way
▪ If he had answered the right question in the wrong way, his decision would be binding.
▪ But it was the wrong way to put it.
▪ He knew that was the wrong way to be, she ought to try to eat.
▪ One day, when I came home from work, she really pushed me the wrong way.
▪ Then he drove off, the wrong way down the dual carriageway, said Jane Cockburn, prosecuting.
▪ She picks up the iron the wrong way and burns her hand.
▪ No matter what compliment you pay them, they always take it the wrong way.
▪ And plus there is no right or wrong way.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
back the wrong horse
bark up the wrong tree
▪ You're barking up the wrong tree if you think Sam can help you.
▪ Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree.
▪ Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree?
▪ However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree.
▪ In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree.
▪ People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree.
▪ They have maybe barked up the wrong tree.
be on the right/wrong track
▪ A few people, though, were on the right track.
▪ And other signs helped convince me that I was on the right track.
▪ Dole was on the right track when he talked about tolerance, but he mysteriously dropped it once he got the nomination.
▪ He hoped the man was on the right track and did his best to believe that he was.
▪ I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object, not painting it.
▪ The officers consequently had little idea whether they were on the right track or not.
▪ You are on the right track so follow your nose.
correct me if I'm wrong
▪ Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you say you'd never met him before?
get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick
get on the wrong side of sb
▪ If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender.
▪ Linda Smith got on the wrong side of the National Rifle Association recently.
▪ She was going to find out shortly that she couldn't get on the wrong side of Harry without paying for it.
▪ Travis, remind me not to get on the wrong side of you again.
get out of bed on the wrong side
get the wrong idea
▪ Don't get the wrong idea - the Dixons aren't as arrogant as they sound.
▪ A lot of people get the wrong idea.
▪ People have got the wrong idea about this one.
▪ People often got the wrong idea about Nanny Ogg, and she took care to see that they did.
hit/strike the right/wrong note
▪ He reworked everything he wrote until he had hit the right note of Gailic pedantry.
▪ So are buskers in Gloucester striking the right note with their audience?
▪ That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially?
not put a foot wrong
on the right/wrong side of 30/40 etc
on the wrong/right side of the law
▪ De Niro plays a lawyer, on the right side of the law.
right a wrong
▪ Its business is not to right wrongs, but to make money.
▪ Most problems arise from neglect and, since repairs involve skilled labour, righting a wrong can be expensive.
rub sb up the wrong way
smell wrong/fishy/odd etc
▪ And then you go out with some other woman and she smells wrong.
▪ So, in short, if a fish smells fishy it is an indication that it is going off.
▪ The Adkinsons' neighbors smelled wrong in the air, but pinched their noses closed and kept to themselves.
▪ Why does fish usually smell fishy?
start/get off on the wrong/right foot
the rights and wrongs of sth
▪ My sisters and I got a long lecture on the rights and wrongs of wearing makeup.
▪ I do not wish to enter into the rights and wrongs of meat consumption versus vegetarianism or alcohol consumption versus abstention.
▪ Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of that dispute, we all know the importance of representatives.
▪ Not the rights and wrongs of conscientious objection.
▪ She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile.
▪ She would worry about the rights and wrongs of the situation in the morning.
▪ We can generalise from the rights and wrongs of his account of seeing to the use of the other senses as well.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alice felt she had made the wrong decision.
▪ Dave's wrong for this job. He doesn't have enough patience.
▪ Do you think violence is always wrong, even in self-defence?
▪ For every answer that is wrong, you lose five points.
▪ His brand of nationalism is wrong for our party and wrong for the country.
▪ I don't deny that what I did was wrong, but I had no choice at the time.
▪ I think you picked the wrong time to call her.
▪ I tried to phone him, but it was the wrong number.
▪ I was taught that abortion is wrong, even though it's not illegal.
▪ I wouldn't like you to get the wrong impression -- I do enjoy the course, but I just find it very hard work.
▪ It's wrong the way they treat that poor animal.
▪ It is wrong to treat people this way -- they should be given a chance to defend themselves.
▪ It was wrong of Sophie to take the money without asking.
▪ Mom always told us that stealing was wrong.
▪ Myrna accidentally took the wrong medicine.
▪ People used to believe that the world was flat, but we now know this is wrong.
▪ Someone had moved the road sign so it was pointing in the wrong direction.
▪ The files had been put back in the wrong order.
▪ The schedule must be wrong.
▪ There's nothing wrong with making money, is there?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And you're always dead wrong.
▪ I must have been wrong I suppose.
▪ It would make so many others wrong.
▪ One wrong move, we realized with horror, and the doors could come tumbling down.
▪ The other members of the joint chiefs agreed with him that the Indochina conflict was the wrong war in the wrong place.
▪ Was I wrong to make a fuss?
▪ When your forecasts are significantly wrong, find out why.
II.adverbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
▪ It's a bigger car, with a longer wheelbase: what went wrong?
▪ It was on their return trip north that things went wrong.
▪ He was allegedly detained at the town's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoon shopping expedition went wrong.
▪ If not, what went wrong?
▪ Mrs Bottomley wants to find out what went wrong and see if staff relations problems can be improved.
▪ But this was supposed to be a clandestine operation, and if things went wrong, they would go wrong in secret.
▪ So what went wrong, Geoff?
▪ Whenever anything went wrong, there was no substitute for the maintenance department.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I think you've added it up wrongly.
▪ Rightly or wrongly, employees see 'performance pay raises' as unfair.
▪ The police chief admitted that some prisoners had been wrongly punished.
▪ They spelled my name wrong on the envelope.
▪ You've spelled my name wrong -- there should be an 'e' at the end.
▪ You idiot, Todd - you did it all wrong.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ The Bill ensures that there is a clear complaints procedures should things go wrong.
▪ The brainy men all went along To see that nothing should go wrong.
III.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
thing
▪ Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!
▪ There was only one thing wrong.
▪ There was only one thing wrong with my room in this Dreamland Hotel.
▪ The only thing wrong was my shyness.
▪ Miss Fingerstop told me the one thing wrong with her life was that it lacked surprise.
▪ The only thing wrong was that secretly she hated her life and everything about it.
■ VERB
do
▪ You may prefer to do wrong.
▪ From his description the firm could do no wrong.
▪ Governments in these countries could apparently do no wrong as their economies soared.
▪ She thinks he can do no wrong.
▪ Off in another country, seeing things, a wonderful place where you can do no wrong.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Benjy's too young to know right from wrong.
▪ Punishment for the wrongs of the regime still needs to be addressed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Did the person know the difference between right and wrong?
▪ He who wanted only to do right was so placed that he must choose between two hideous wrongs.
▪ So what's in your catalogue of known wrongs?
IV.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
prove
▪ So who better than a high-powered social scientist who also happens to be a Roman Catholic to prove them wrong?
▪ Watch what you say about Alphabet Soup, because the grayish 5-year-old likes to prove people wrong.
▪ Tom Watson proved me wrong only four years later.
▪ A win will prove them wrong and put a whole new spin on this season.
▪ She would prove him wrong whatever happened.
▪ Gwynn considers himself a self- motivator, but clearly he relishes proving others wrong.
▪ They have been revelling in proving people wrong for a decade now.
▪ Perhaps, he told himself that morning, the parish would prove his forecast wrong.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on the right/wrong track
▪ A few people, though, were on the right track.
▪ And other signs helped convince me that I was on the right track.
▪ Dole was on the right track when he talked about tolerance, but he mysteriously dropped it once he got the nomination.
▪ He hoped the man was on the right track and did his best to believe that he was.
▪ I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object, not painting it.
▪ The officers consequently had little idea whether they were on the right track or not.
▪ You are on the right track so follow your nose.
get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick
get on the wrong side of sb
▪ If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender.
▪ Linda Smith got on the wrong side of the National Rifle Association recently.
▪ She was going to find out shortly that she couldn't get on the wrong side of Harry without paying for it.
▪ Travis, remind me not to get on the wrong side of you again.
get out of bed on the wrong side
get the wrong idea
▪ Don't get the wrong idea - the Dixons aren't as arrogant as they sound.
▪ A lot of people get the wrong idea.
▪ People have got the wrong idea about this one.
▪ People often got the wrong idea about Nanny Ogg, and she took care to see that they did.
hit/strike the right/wrong note
▪ He reworked everything he wrote until he had hit the right note of Gailic pedantry.
▪ So are buskers in Gloucester striking the right note with their audience?
▪ That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially?
not put a foot wrong
on the right/wrong side of 30/40 etc
on the wrong/right side of the law
▪ De Niro plays a lawyer, on the right side of the law.
start/get off on the wrong/right foot
the rights and wrongs of sth
▪ My sisters and I got a long lecture on the rights and wrongs of wearing makeup.
▪ I do not wish to enter into the rights and wrongs of meat consumption versus vegetarianism or alcohol consumption versus abstention.
▪ Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of that dispute, we all know the importance of representatives.
▪ Not the rights and wrongs of conscientious objection.
▪ She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile.
▪ She would worry about the rights and wrongs of the situation in the morning.
▪ We can generalise from the rights and wrongs of his account of seeing to the use of the other senses as well.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Both athletes felt they had been wronged by the committee's decision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He feels himself wronged by unspoken accusations.