get wrong

English

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)

(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.
(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.