mistake for

Meaning

1. mistake sb / sth for sb / sth

   to think wrongly that sb / sth is sb / sth else

   I think you must be mistaking me for someone else.

In the movies · 524

• My mistake. My mistake.Booksmart2019
• It's a mistake.The Mist2007
• But it was a mistake.Nightmare Alley2021
• It was just a mistake. A stupid mistake.The Way Way Back2013
• If it was a mistakeThe Matrix Resurrections2021
• That was a mistake.American Ultra2015
• This is a mistake.The Count of Monte Cristo2002
• And then, Moscow laboratory was doing mistake by mistake.Icarus2017

Learn it in full scenes

• The Mist2007
  • The Mist Reaches the Store
  • David Argues With His Neighbor
  • David Argues the Mist Is Real
• The Way Way Back2013
  • Trent Rates Duncan a Three
  • Betty Welcomes the New Neighbors
  • Dinner at Trent's Beach House

From the same entry

• and no mistake
• by mistake
• make no mistake
• in mistake for