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gets the wrong idea

gets the wrong idea is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get the wrong idea.

Meaning of get the wrong idea

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
    • 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...1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

Questions about gets the wrong idea

What is gets the wrong idea the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Gets the wrong idea is the third-person singular simple present indicative of get the wrong idea.

Words near gets the wrong idea in the dictionary

  1. gets the vapours
  2. gets the wall
  3. gets the wind up
  4. gets the word out
  5. gets the worst of it
  6. gets the wrong idea
  7. gets there
  8. gets through
  9. gets through one's head
  10. gets through one's thick skull
  11. gets to

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