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what’s wrong with this picture?

what’s wrong with this picture? phrase: pointing out that a current situation, plan, or set of circumstances does not make sense, or contains an obvious flaw.

Phrase

what’s wrong with this picture?

  1. (idiomatic, rhetoric, often satirical) Pointing out that a current situation, plan, or set of circumstances does not make sense, or contains an obvious flaw.

Origin of what’s wrong with this picture?

May have originated from a section in the children’s magazine Highlights, in which a drawing of a seemingly ordinary situation is shown, along with various outlandish and nonsensical gags.

Questions about what’s wrong with this picture?

What does what’s wrong with this picture? mean?
What’s wrong with this picture? means pointing out that a current situation, plan, or set of circumstances does not make sense, or contains an obvious flaw.
What part of speech is what’s wrong with this picture??
What’s wrong with this picture? is a phrase.

Words near what’s wrong with this picture? in the dictionary

  1. whatzernames
  2. whatzisname
  3. whatzisnames
  4. whatzit
  5. whatzits
  6. what’s wrong with this picture?
  7. whau
  8. whaup
  9. whaups
  10. whaz
  11. whazup

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