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