I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a false/wrong move (= made by mistake )
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One wrong move and the business might never recover.
a false/wrong move (= in the wrong direction )
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One false move, and she’d fall over the edge.
a wrong/false/mistaken assumption
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Both theories are based on a single wrong assumption.
a wrong/misleading impression
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The advertisement gave a misleading impression of the product.
an incorrect/wrong diagnosis
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The doctors apparently made an incorrect diagnosis.
be in the wrong gear
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The straining noises from the engine told him that he was in the wrong gear.
came out all wrong (= not in the way I intended )
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I tried to explain everything to her, but it came out all wrong .
dead right/wrong
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You’re dead wrong, so let me handle this.
fall into the wrong hands
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We must not let these documents fall into the wrong hands .
fundamentally wrong
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The conclusions of the report are fundamentally wrong .
get your facts wrong
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It’s no use putting together a beautifully-written argument if you get your facts wrong.
go badly wrong (= go wrong in a serious way )
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Their election campaign had gone badly wrong.
gone horribly wrong
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The plan had gone horribly wrong .
guess right/correctly/wrong
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If you guess correctly, you have another turn.
in the right/wrong frame of mind
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You have to be in the right frame of mind to play well.
morally wrong
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What you did wasn’t illegal, but it was morally wrong .
not far off/out/wrong (= close to being correct )
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I guessed it would cost $100 and it was $110, so I was not far out.
nothing wrong
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There’s nothing wrong with the data.
prove sb wrong/right
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See if you can prove me wrong.
sb's calculations are wrong/inaccurate
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Some of our calculations were wrong.
seriously wrong
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I was worried there was something seriously wrong with me.
something wrong (= a problem )
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I think there’s something wrong with the phone.
spell sth wrong/wrongly
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You’ve spelled my name wrong.
take the first/a wrong etc turn (= go along the first etc road )
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I think we took a wrong turn coming out of town.
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Take the second turn on the left.
taken...wrong turning
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He must have taken a wrong turning in the dark.
the right/wrong answer
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Do you know the right answer to this question?
the right/wrong choice
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I think you’ve made the right choice.
the right/wrong direction
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Are you sure this is the right direction for Shipton?
the right/wrong kind
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It wasn’t the right kind of holiday for me.
the wrong conclusion
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Reporters saw the couple together and leapt to the wrong conclusion.
the wrong decision
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I thought I'd made the wrong decision marrying Jeff.
the wrong order
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The pages had been put in the wrong order.
the wrong signals (= ones that do not give a true account of a situation )
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Reducing the penalty for marijuana use perhaps sends the wrong signal to teenagers.
the wrong way
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There is a right way and a wrong way to do it.
the wrong way
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He had ended up going the wrong way down a one-way street.
wrong
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Unfortunately all the advice they gave me was wrong.
wrong/false
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He was jailed for providing false information to the police.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
badly
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It was then that things had gone badly wrong .
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By the late seventies many observers were concluding that something had gone badly wrong with initially well-motivated regulation.
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How did things go so badly wrong so quickly?
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If one accepts Levitt's analysis, Hoover got their marketing badly wrong .
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When Rebecca emerged into the sunlight, it was clear that something was badly wrong .
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Where on this conjoined road of shared experiences did the Prime Minister go so badly wrong and become a Tory?
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That alone would have been enough to show something was badly wrong .
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Since then, despite deep and life changing bonds being formed, some relationships have at times threatened to go badly wrong .
horribly
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But then its aspirations all went horribly wrong .
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Doctors feared an air rifle pellet had pierced his brain when the joke went horribly wrong .
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The initial experiment went horribly wrong .
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And how can you guarantee a reasonable level of support in case something does go horribly wrong ?
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It could have gone horribly wrong .
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But what are the chances that something might go horribly wrong ?
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Negotiations, in the hands of the inept or inexperienced, can go horribly wrong .
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The whole plan had gone horribly wrong , but when?
morally
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Such testimony was not necessarily regarded as morally wrong .
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It would be morally wrong to do otherwise.
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Why is insider dealing morally wrong ?
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On the other hand, the child who has some expectation that Lying will go unpunished sees nothing morally wrong with lying.
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The assertion that some particular type of conduct is morally wrong because it is may appear unsatisfactory but it is unchallengeable.
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It follows that it is wrong to convict and punish some one who has done nothing morally wrong.
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It is on this basis that many see insider dealing as morally wrong .
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I have a nagging sense of being unsatisfied with my behaviour, as though I was doing something morally wrong .
quite
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If that is the reason then it is quite wrong .
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It would be quite wrong to suggest that the only influence on mate choice is relative familiarity.
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Paul had been quite wrong to call Michele cold and unfeeling.
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Eisenhower was quite wrong to worry.
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It may be difficult, but it is not complicated, and if it gets complicated there is something quite wrong .
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An absolute knowledge for it, and I see the picture of it, and it's quite wrong .
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You're quite wrong , Harriet.
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It would, for example, be quite wrong to imagine that opposition to the Copernican theory derived only from religious prejudice.
seriously
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And by summer 1987 - still a year before Barlow Clowes was closed - it was obvious that something was seriously wrong .
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We would call in a specialist and try to find out if there was anything seriously wrong .
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What does matter is that something seems seriously wrong with Gaia.
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And I think I must conclude that, in spite of the well-established format, something is going seriously wrong here.
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Nothing seriously wrong , but she had been sick a lot, slept badly from indigestion, and was disappointed with herself.
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They said there'd better be something seriously wrong with me.
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It means that we're putting things right when things have gone seriously wrong .
very
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Immediately we realise that something is very wrong .
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Something was wrong , very wrong.
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The whole thing could go very wrong .
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The conclusion was inevitable: there must be something very wrong with a system in which such faults were normal.
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When things went wrong in this kind of game, they went very wrong.
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You see him there and you know something is very wrong .
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If he accepted that Celia had been driven to taking her life, it meant there was something very wrong with his.
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But to my ear, there is something very wrong with the way Vasquez spins it.
■ NOUN
answer
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There are no right or wrong answers to these questions.
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With contemporary art, there is not always a right or wrong answer .
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The teacher was told by the researcher to regard silence as a wrong answer and to punish it accordingly.
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They found no clearly right and wrong answers in dealing with people.
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But it's the wrong answer .
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Conversely, they attached little value to questions to which there were simply short right or wrong answers .
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Note that there are no right or wrong answers and that your answers are entirely anonymous.
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A number of wrong answers are detailed at the top of these pages.
decision
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Secondly, central bankers, like other human beings, can take the wrong decisions .
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It was not necessarily the wrong decision .
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All the wrong decisions of Preston's life had come from feeling vulnerable.
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While training schoolchildren to deal with threatening situations, they found many were making the wrong decisions .
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With hindsight in Andrew Hagans case they made the wrong decision .
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Mr Major must be a man with a beleaguered mentality - not thinking particularly straight, tending to take the wrong decisions .
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If sometimes they're the wrong decisions ... too bad.
direction
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But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction .
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How can so much movement in the wrong direction be accomplished in one year?
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He urged him to go to the local hotel, only twelve miles in the wrong direction .
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You went the wrong direction five times a day!
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I feel only that we have taken a wrong direction somewhere, and are blindly stumbling on because our leaders blindfold us.
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But I am heavier and headed in the wrong direction .
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Apparently, one out of every 16 signposts at crossroads in the region are pointing in the wrong direction .
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He could hear the old man rummaging in there, completely unaware that things were now somehow turned in the wrong direction .
end
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Watcher, lamppost, fancy being on the wrong end of a chat?
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A bright red Porsche came in from the wrong end , ignoring the arrows and signs.
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She looked at the singer and his wife as if from the wrong end of a telescope.
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And the wrong end of the stick.
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The hon. Gentleman has got the wrong end of the stick about how they work.
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Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope.
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He'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city.
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But they appeared to me as if seen through the wrong end of a telescope, muted and unreal.
foot
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She likes to see the fastening, which means that for convenience, the shoe ends up on the wrong foot .
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We got off on the wrong foot the other day and it was my fault.
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Your weight was on the wrong foot .
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Unfortunately, Pope got off on the wrong foot with his new troops.
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That's what I did - got off on the wrong foot .
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Mind you, the boots are on wrong feet which makes us smile - cross-legged feat!
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Many women, through no fault of their own, appear to start off on the wrong foot .
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In Division Three Hereford have kicked off with the wrong foot .
hand
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A crossed cheque therefore gives some protection against fraud if it falls into the wrong hands .
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Pentagon officials say they have already had some success reducing the risk that nuclear materials will fall into the wrong hands .
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It's surprising what can become dangerous in the wrong hands .
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Another worry is that nuclear material from defunct nuclear power plants and dismantled nuclear weapons might end up in the wrong hands .
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And images of Kurds on tape could fall into the wrong hands .
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In my haste I had shoved the wrong hand into the wrong pocket and pulled out the wrong ball!
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I will never allow Kirsty to fall into the wrong hands .
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All the excess food is in the wrong places or in the wrong hands .
idea
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People have quite the wrong idea about vampires, you see.
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We have an entirely wrong idea of ourselves through the pictures in our minds.
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A lot of people get the wrong idea .
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She further offended doctors by clinging to patently wrong ideas .
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People have got the wrong idea about this one.
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Vitalism, like every wrong idea , contains a useful sliver of truth.
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People often got the wrong idea about Nanny Ogg, and she took care to see that they did.
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Too much makeup will give the boys the wrong idea .
impression
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He was beginning to get entirely the wrong impression , and that really annoyed - and disturbed - her.
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You know we got the wrong impression of a revolution.
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We now accept that the report was based upon inaccurate information and conveyed completely the wrong impression about Linford.
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They gave the wrong impression , sent the wrong signal.
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And if all that sounds a bit pious, I've created the wrong impression .
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Mr Fallon says any move to make Darlington a development area would create a wrong impression .
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Besides, the words could be construed as flirtatious, and she didn't want him getting the wrong impression again.
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The scientists involved blame the press and its lurid headlines for giving people the wrong impression about Zeta.
man
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She's a sexy, cheerful, lively and uninhibited girl who married the wrong man .
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The police had summonsed the wrong man , and the court dismissed the case against him.
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How terrible it must be to marry the wrong man !
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By the time Sir Humphrey sat down few people in that court could have felt that Simmons had arrested the wrong man .
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The story about Murray shooting the wrong man .
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Why did she have to meet the wrong man , and one who was so strongly attracted to her?
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And so he had received the call-which anyway had been destined for the wrong man .
number
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Perhaps it had been a wrong number after all.
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However, my experience is that consolidating down to one is exactly the wrong number .
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Usually there were no calls save the occasional wrong number .
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If you are calling to report that your cable is out, you have the wrong number .
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That might not have been a wrong number .
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Of course it might be no more wrong than a wrong number .
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A wrong number would be the best possible result.
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If it was a wrong number , no harm had been done.
place
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I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Occasionally, a Staff Pro guard is simply the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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A glimpse convinces the men then that they have come to the wrong place .
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Some innocent, he supposed, in the wrong place at the wrong time.
reason
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The Catholic arguments confuse the issue, but this time, for all the wrong reasons , the Pope is infallible.
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Many do, but often for the wrong reasons .
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This unlikely concoction was one of the more important pharmacological advances in the history of medicine, albeit for the wrong reasons .
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I realized that most of them were there for the wrong reasons .
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In addition, it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons .
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The issue of waiver is particularly important where a buyer rejects the goods for a wrong reason .
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Other people, he thought, probably found him funny, but funny for the wrong reasons .
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I just have this feeling that she is looking at me and judging me for all the wrong reasons .
side
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Stitch a plain seam on the wrong side of the fabric.
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For all I knew, I was firing on the wrong side of the trail.
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And she's the wrong side of fifty.
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He seemed to know about it, at least, the wrong side of it.
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Like Dora Chance in Wise Children, she enjoyed the view from the wrong side of the tracks.
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A lot of nonsense followed about etiquette and right sides and wrong sides.
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Now it looks as if the wrong side won.
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A machine fitted on the wrong side will be inefficient and wear out quickly.
thing
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In the garden in her white dress, she knew she had done the wrong thing .
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This was the wrong thing to say.
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Why did she keep reacting like this, and saying the wrong thing ?
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He decided to do a wrong thing in a very misguided way which is good which is in defense of human life.
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Some people seemed to have a talent for saying the wrong thing , she thought to herself.
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He always seemed to say innocently exactly the wrong thing at the most inopportune moment.
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At breakfast, a dozy waitress brings the wrong things .
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Maybe it was the wrong thing to do.
time
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I was in love with her at the wrong time .
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This may be the wrong time for the party to avert its gaze.
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I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time .
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His brother-in-law David Chandler lives in Swindon: He says he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time .
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Occasionally, a Staff Pro guard is simply the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time .
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Yet it seems they keep doing the wrong thing at the wrong time , according to the papers.
tree
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In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree .
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However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree .
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People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree .
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They have maybe barked up the wrong tree .
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Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree ?
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Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree .
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Unfortunately the succeeding owners chopped the wrong trees down!
turn
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I took a wrong turn out of town.
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He took a wrong turn in his life, he concludes.
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Their chances of survival vanished the moment they stumbled into the procession; one wrong turn and that was it.
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There even have been reports that he took a wrong turn to get there.
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How cruel to reflect upon the wrong turns and unsought circumstances of an unlucky life.
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We haven't taken one wrong turn or had one row since getting in.
turning
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He must have taken a wrong turning in the dark.
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He took a couple of wrong turnings in the gloom and was angry when he reached Jacqui's flat.
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In Bechar, we took a wrong turning and drove to the gates of an army barracks.
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Harrington's platoon on a wrong turning , heading in the direction of Serre.
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Wherever he looked, he saw human beings taking the wrong turning .
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We took one wrong turning - Vanessa firmly blamed me - but it was soon corrected.
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Many wrong turnings in discussion and communication in general can be avoided, as unnecessary difficulties are pre-empted.
way
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If he had answered the right question in the wrong way , his decision would be binding.
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But it was the wrong way to put it.
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He knew that was the wrong way to be, she ought to try to eat.
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One day, when I came home from work, she really pushed me the wrong way .
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Then he drove off, the wrong way down the dual carriageway, said Jane Cockburn, prosecuting.
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She picks up the iron the wrong way and burns her hand.
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No matter what compliment you pay them, they always take it the wrong way .
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And plus there is no right or wrong way .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
back the wrong horse
bark up the wrong tree
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You're barking up the wrong tree if you think Sam can help you.
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Can't help thinking that they are on the right track and it's we who are barking up the wrong tree.
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Could he once again be barking up the wrong tree?
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However, those who advocate a federal takeover of workers' compensation are barking up the wrong tree.
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In retrospect it now seems that both camps were barking up the wrong tree.
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People who feel sorry for my old bridesmaid and travelling companion are barking up the wrong tree.
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They have maybe barked up the wrong tree.
be on the right/wrong track
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A few people, though, were on the right track .
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And other signs helped convince me that I was on the right track .
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Dole was on the right track when he talked about tolerance, but he mysteriously dropped it once he got the nomination.
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He hoped the man was on the right track and did his best to believe that he was.
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I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object, not painting it.
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The officers consequently had little idea whether they were on the right track or not.
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You are on the right track so follow your nose.
correct me if I'm wrong
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you say you'd never met him before?
get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick
get on the wrong side of sb
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If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender.
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Linda Smith got on the wrong side of the National Rifle Association recently.
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She was going to find out shortly that she couldn't get on the wrong side of Harry without paying for it.
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Travis, remind me not to get on the wrong side of you again.
get out of bed on the wrong side
get the wrong idea
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Don't get the wrong idea - the Dixons aren't as arrogant as they sound.
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A lot of people get the wrong idea .
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People have got the wrong idea about this one.
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People often got the wrong idea about Nanny Ogg, and she took care to see that they did.
hit/strike the right/wrong note
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He reworked everything he wrote until he had hit the right note of Gailic pedantry.
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So are buskers in Gloucester striking the right note with their audience?
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That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially?
not put a foot wrong
on the right/wrong side of 30/40 etc
on the wrong/right side of the law
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De Niro plays a lawyer, on the right side of the law.
right a wrong
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Its business is not to right wrongs, but to make money.
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Most problems arise from neglect and, since repairs involve skilled labour, righting a wrong can be expensive.
rub sb up the wrong way
smell wrong/fishy/odd etc
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And then you go out with some other woman and she smells wrong.
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So, in short, if a fish smells fishy it is an indication that it is going off.
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The Adkinsons' neighbors smelled wrong in the air, but pinched their noses closed and kept to themselves.
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Why does fish usually smell fishy?
start/get off on the wrong/right foot
the rights and wrongs of sth
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My sisters and I got a long lecture on the rights and wrongs of wearing makeup.
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I do not wish to enter into the rights and wrongs of meat consumption versus vegetarianism or alcohol consumption versus abstention.
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Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of that dispute, we all know the importance of representatives.
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Not the rights and wrongs of conscientious objection.
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She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile.
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She would worry about the rights and wrongs of the situation in the morning.
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We can generalise from the rights and wrongs of his account of seeing to the use of the other senses as well.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Alice felt she had made the wrong decision.
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Dave's wrong for this job. He doesn't have enough patience.
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Do you think violence is always wrong , even in self-defence?
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For every answer that is wrong , you lose five points.
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His brand of nationalism is wrong for our party and wrong for the country.
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I don't deny that what I did was wrong , but I had no choice at the time.
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I think you picked the wrong time to call her.
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I tried to phone him, but it was the wrong number.
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I was taught that abortion is wrong , even though it's not illegal.
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I wouldn't like you to get the wrong impression -- I do enjoy the course, but I just find it very hard work.
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It's wrong the way they treat that poor animal.
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It is wrong to treat people this way -- they should be given a chance to defend themselves.
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It was wrong of Sophie to take the money without asking.
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Mom always told us that stealing was wrong .
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Myrna accidentally took the wrong medicine.
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People used to believe that the world was flat, but we now know this is wrong .
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Someone had moved the road sign so it was pointing in the wrong direction.
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The files had been put back in the wrong order.
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The schedule must be wrong .
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There's nothing wrong with making money, is there?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And you're always dead wrong .
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I must have been wrong I suppose.
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It would make so many others wrong .
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One wrong move, we realized with horror, and the doors could come tumbling down.
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The other members of the joint chiefs agreed with him that the Indochina conflict was the wrong war in the wrong place.
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Was I wrong to make a fuss?
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When your forecasts are significantly wrong , find out why.
II. adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
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It's a bigger car, with a longer wheelbase: what went wrong ?
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It was on their return trip north that things went wrong .
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He was allegedly detained at the town's Safeway Supermarket after a Friday afternoon shopping expedition went wrong .
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If not, what went wrong ?
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Mrs Bottomley wants to find out what went wrong and see if staff relations problems can be improved.
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But this was supposed to be a clandestine operation, and if things went wrong , they would go wrong in secret.
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So what went wrong , Geoff?
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Whenever anything went wrong , there was no substitute for the maintenance department.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I think you've added it up wrongly.
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Rightly or wrongly, employees see 'performance pay raises' as unfair.
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The police chief admitted that some prisoners had been wrongly punished.
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They spelled my name wrong on the envelope.
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You've spelled my name wrong -- there should be an 'e' at the end.
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You idiot, Todd - you did it all wrong .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The Bill ensures that there is a clear complaints procedures should things go wrong .
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The brainy men all went along To see that nothing should go wrong .
III. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
thing
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Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!
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There was only one thing wrong .
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There was only one thing wrong with my room in this Dreamland Hotel.
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The only thing wrong was my shyness.
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Miss Fingerstop told me the one thing wrong with her life was that it lacked surprise.
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The only thing wrong was that secretly she hated her life and everything about it.
■ VERB
do
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You may prefer to do wrong .
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From his description the firm could do no wrong .
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Governments in these countries could apparently do no wrong as their economies soared.
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She thinks he can do no wrong .
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Off in another country, seeing things, a wonderful place where you can do no wrong .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Benjy's too young to know right from wrong .
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Punishment for the wrongs of the regime still needs to be addressed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Did the person know the difference between right and wrong ?
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He who wanted only to do right was so placed that he must choose between two hideous wrongs.
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So what's in your catalogue of known wrongs?
IV. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
prove
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So who better than a high-powered social scientist who also happens to be a Roman Catholic to prove them wrong ?
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Watch what you say about Alphabet Soup, because the grayish 5-year-old likes to prove people wrong .
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Tom Watson proved me wrong only four years later.
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A win will prove them wrong and put a whole new spin on this season.
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She would prove him wrong whatever happened.
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Gwynn considers himself a self- motivator, but clearly he relishes proving others wrong .
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They have been revelling in proving people wrong for a decade now.
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Perhaps, he told himself that morning, the parish would prove his forecast wrong .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on the right/wrong track
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A few people, though, were on the right track .
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And other signs helped convince me that I was on the right track .
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Dole was on the right track when he talked about tolerance, but he mysteriously dropped it once he got the nomination.
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He hoped the man was on the right track and did his best to believe that he was.
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I knew I was on the right track when I felt that thrill of pleasure at placing object, not painting it.
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The officers consequently had little idea whether they were on the right track or not.
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You are on the right track so follow your nose.
get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick
get on the wrong side of sb
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If you get on the wrong side of Miss Trunchbull she can liquidise you like a carrot in a kitchen blender.
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Linda Smith got on the wrong side of the National Rifle Association recently.
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She was going to find out shortly that she couldn't get on the wrong side of Harry without paying for it.
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Travis, remind me not to get on the wrong side of you again.
get out of bed on the wrong side
get the wrong idea
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Don't get the wrong idea - the Dixons aren't as arrogant as they sound.
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A lot of people get the wrong idea .
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People have got the wrong idea about this one.
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People often got the wrong idea about Nanny Ogg, and she took care to see that they did.
hit/strike the right/wrong note
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He reworked everything he wrote until he had hit the right note of Gailic pedantry.
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So are buskers in Gloucester striking the right note with their audience?
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That would have the merit of simplicity, but would it strike the right note socially?
not put a foot wrong
on the right/wrong side of 30/40 etc
on the wrong/right side of the law
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De Niro plays a lawyer, on the right side of the law.
start/get off on the wrong/right foot
the rights and wrongs of sth
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My sisters and I got a long lecture on the rights and wrongs of wearing makeup.
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I do not wish to enter into the rights and wrongs of meat consumption versus vegetarianism or alcohol consumption versus abstention.
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Leaving aside the rights and wrongs of that dispute, we all know the importance of representatives.
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Not the rights and wrongs of conscientious objection.
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She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile.
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She would worry about the rights and wrongs of the situation in the morning.
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We can generalise from the rights and wrongs of his account of seeing to the use of the other senses as well.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Both athletes felt they had been wronged by the committee's decision.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He feels himself wronged by unspoken accusations.