get the wrong end of the stick

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to understand sth in the wrong way

   You've got the wrong end of the stick.

In the movies · 1

• You've got the wrong end of the stick.The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943

Learn it in full scenes

• The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943
  • War Starts at Midnight
  • The Home Guard Exercise Turns Real
  • General Wynne-Candy Is Taken Prisoner

From the same entry

• from the wrong side of the tracks
• on the wrong side of the law
• take the wrong way
• back the wrong horse
• be barking up the wrong tree
• get out of bed on the wrong side
• not far off
• get off on the right foot
• hit the right note
• rub up the wrong way
• get on the right side of
• on the right side of 40, 50