put two and two together and make five
informal humorousto understand a particular situation wrongly, often in a way that is more shocking or exciting than the truth:
"Why in the world did she think you were pregnant?" "I was sick a couple of times, and I guess she just put two and two together and made five."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Concluding and deducing
- analysis
- deduce
- deduction
- diagnosis
- exclude
- extrapolate
- gather
- in the last/final analysis idiom
- induction
- inductive
- infer
- inference
- must
- perceive
- put
- put sth down to sth
- reason
- syllogism
- two
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