wrong turn

collocation in English

meaningsofwrongandturn

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wrong
adjective
uk
/rɒŋ/us
/rɑːŋ/
not ...
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turn
noun
uk
/tɜːn/us
/tɝːn/
an opportunity or a duty to do something at a particular time or in a particular order, before or after ...
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(Definition ofwrongandturnfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofwrong turn

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That proved to be awrongturn.
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However, the optimization process is still proceeding in small steps and a step backwards does not necessarily mean that optimization is taking a "wrongturn".
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Being close meant that grandparents felt they had to support their children, even though their lives had taken awrongturnin some way.
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Most people recognise that housing policy took a very badwrongturnin providing tower blocks.
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We must make sure that thatwrongturnis not taken.
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Apparently, the convoy took more than onewrongturn.
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He also took a momentarywrongturnnear the finish.
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It will be open to him then to make comment if he feels that the discussions in another place have taken thewrongturn.
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The captain came to the conclusion that he had taken awrongturnand walked into the sea on a particularly stormy night.
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It is not seen as awrongturn, culturally speaking, but as a great opportunity for cultural enrichment and a chance to increase democratic involvement.
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There are some people who think that this country, in pursuit of the aim of being the workshop of the world, took awrongturn.
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This one element represents a completewrongturnfor a report that otherwise takes a sound approach, and it is a turn that is morally perilous.
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This poignant photo novella tells the story of consequence when innocence takes awrongturn.
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Brief panic resulted when he became confused and took awrongturn.
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The thieves take awrongturnin the woods and crash their car.
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However, he takes awrongturnand the truck crashes into a ditch.
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Most did not realize for several days or even weeks they had made awrongturn.
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Rooms may change appearance upon being revisited; making awrongturnmay result in a strange scene.
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After taking awrongturn, the band ended up stranded in a haunted ghost town, attacked by its ghoulish residents.
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From the standpoint of macroeconomic engineering, the work of the past several decades looks like an unfortunatewrongturn.
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One of its companies entered the town, but then it took awrongturnat a fork in the road and reached a dead end.
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She takes awrongturnand nearly walks into where they keep the "house" garbage implying that there are other locations that produce waste.
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If a group splits up into several subgroups moving at different speeds, one of the subgroups may take awrongturnat a trail junction.
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Apocryphal stories tell of him helping up competitors who had fallen, and re-directing someone who had taken awrongturnon a cross-country course.
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If the player takes awrongturnor misses a turn, he or she may crash into a door, grate or wall, ending the game.
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