英和和英

動詞

get wrong (third-person singular simple present gets wrong, present participle getting wrong, simple past got wrong, past participle (UK) got wrong or (US) gotten wrong)

1. (transitive) 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. (Northumbria, Norfolk, often with off) To be told off or reprimanded; to get into trouble.
   • 1976, John Henry Taylor, The Half-Way Generation: A Study of Asian Youths in Newcastle upon Tyne, NFER Publishing Company, page 138:

     […] she couldn't tell her mother and father, because she would have got wrong off her mother and father [...]

   • 1986, Pat Barker, The Century's Daughter, Virago; republished as Liza's England, 1996, page 238:

     When the silence had gone on a long time, Kath said, ‘I got wrong for saying nowt.’

   • 2001, Fred Sedgwick, Teaching Literacy: A Creative Approach, Continuum, page 133:

     ‘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.’

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

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