in the wrong

[in the wrong] {adj. phr.}

With moral or legal right or truth against you; against justice, truth, or fact; wrong.

* /In attacking a smaller boy, Jack was plainly in the wrong./

* /Mary was in the wrong to drink from a finger bowl./

* /Since he had put pennies behind the fuses, Bill was in the wrong when fire broke out./

Compare: OUT OF THE WAY. Contrast: IN THE RIGHT.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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