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单词 the wrong way
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the (or a) wrong way
a. the (or a) wrong way, the way or method least conducive to a desired end or purpose; the (or an) incorrect manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [noun] > incorrect manner or procedure
wrongc1440
the (or a) wrong way1490
byway1493
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xxvi. 546 Rohars..sayd, ‘Sire,..here is my gage.’ ‘Rohars,’ sayd Charlemagne, ‘here ye take a wronge waye.’
1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 8 You go the wrong way to worke.
1651 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 518 Hee tooke the wrong way to right himself.
1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) You go the wrong way to work, Vous vous y prenez mal.
1884 Times (Weekly ed.) 31 Oct. 14/3 They went the wrong way to work to gain the ear of the House.
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(the) wrong way
b. (the) wrong way ( †wrong-way, Sc. wrang-gates), in adverbial use, = in a contrary or opposite direction or position to the proper or usual one.
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the world > space > direction > in the direction that [phrase] > in the wrong direction
(the) wrong way1693
the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adverb] > reversed or turned the wrong way
awkward1340
backwarda1475
wrong-way1693
reversely1752
reversewise1800
wrong-wise1849
back to front1869
hindside-foremost1929
arseways1938
the world > space > relative position > inversion > inverted [phrase] > the wrong way round
hind and forth13..
(the) wrong side out (outwards)1600
(the) wrong way1693
1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. iii. 35 You wou'd have taken 'em for Friezland-Hens, with their Feathers growing the wrong way.
1697 London Gaz. No. 3325/4 The S stands the wrong way.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical xii. 157 A Band, or a Cravat put the wrong way.
1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry xxiii. 171 Being wrong-way upwards, the Seed is apt to arch in them.
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 103 Marking-Yarn,..is white Yarn spun the wrong Way.
1806 R. Jamieson Pop. Ballads I. 210 Syne wrang-gaites round the kirk gaed he.
1840 T. Hood Miss Kilmansegg iii, in New Monthly Mag. 60 394 At night..He lies like a hedgehog rolled up the wrong way, Tormenting himself with his prickles.
1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon III. 55 Don't rub her prejudices up the wrong way,..if you can help it.
1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. ix. 108 All three [had] got out of bed the wrong way that morning.
1897 Catholic Mag. Sept. 169 I did not answer, for I felt completely rubbed up the wrong way.
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