get wrong
verbNorthumbria /ɡɛt ɹæŋ/
1
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, wrong.
- You've got it all wrong: I'm innocent of this crime!
- Emily got three of the sums wrong in her maths test.
2
Norfolk, Northumbria, Often, With off To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
- […] 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
- 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:
2 more examples
- ‘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:
- Related terms
- don't get me wrong