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get (hold of) the wrong end of the stick (informal) to not understand a situation correctly. Her friend saw us arrive at the party together and got hold of the wrong end of the stick. I said how nice he was and Julie got the wrong end of the stick and thought I wanted to go out with him. |
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On one level, Cruz's work is a laconic meditation on his own distance from Spanish culture: An emigrant who cannot instantly translate or assimilate, he is doomed to get the wrong end of the stick. |
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