get the wrong idea

get the wrong idea

English

Verb

get the wrong idea (third-person singular simple present gets the wrong idea, present participle getting the wrong idea, simple past got the wrong idea, past participle (US) gotten the wrong idea or (UK) got the wrong idea)

  1. To get the wrong end of the stick
    • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
      I’ve heard that lawyers’ children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess
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