get one's wires crossed
Verb
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Verb
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To get confused or mixed up about another person's intentions; to misunderstand one another.
- We got our wires crossed so I went to the bus station and she to the railway station.
- French: avoir un malentendu, s'emmêler les pinceaux
- German: einander missverstehen, an einander vorbeireden
- Spanish: cruzársele los cables (a alguien)
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