get wrong

present singular third person gets wrong · participle present getting wrong · past got wrong · UK participle past got wrong · US participle past gotten wrong

1. transitiveUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.

   You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!

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   Emily got three of the sums wrong in her maths test.

2. NorfolkNorthumbriaoftenTo be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.

   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

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   […] 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 Publishing Company, page 138

   ‘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

   ‘She's right. You'll get wrong off the War Ag, Muriel, man,’ Eileen said, gaping at her audacity.

   2014, Annie Wilkinson, The Land Girls, Simon & Schuster