get wrong

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.

Verb

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
    • You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
    • Emily got three of the sums wrong in her maths test.
  2. To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
    • […] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father … - 1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER...
    • When the silence had gone on a long time, Kath said, ‘I got wrong for saying nowt.’ - 1986, Pat Barker, The Century's Daughter, Virago; republished as Liza's England, 1996, page 238:
    • ‘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.’ - 2001, Fred Sedgwick, Teaching Literacy: A Creative Approach, Continuum, page 133:

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