have the wrong number

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have the wrong number definition


  1. tv.
    to be wrong. (Have got can replace have.) : You have missed the boat again. You have the wrong number!
  2. tv.
    to be addressing the wrong person. (This use is in addition to the same expression used for a wrong telephone number. Have got can replace have.) : No, I'm Sally. You have the wrong number.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Have the wrong number is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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