prendere un granchio — meaning in English
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English meaning
- mistake noun An action, decision, or belief that is wrong or incorrect.
- misunderstand verb To understand something incorrectly.
Senses
prendere un granchio is used for these senses in English:
- bark up the wrong tree (idiomatic) To take the wrong approach to a situation; to follow a false lead; to attempt to solve a problem using mistaken assumptions about its true nature.
- mistake (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
- misunderstand (transitive) To understand incorrectly, while believing one has understood correctly.
mistake — full definition
- noun An action, decision, or belief that is wrong or incorrect.
- verb To misunderstand or wrongly identify someone or something.