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Orim Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

"In the wrong"

Hi,

Recently I've spotted the "in the wrong" idiom and it raised my doubt. Why we should say "You are in the wrong" but "Correct me if I'm wrong" ?

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com/2009/10/04/55-the-blind-men-and-the-elephant-john-godfrey-saxe / And so these men of Hindustan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And all were in the wrong . Usually the context refers to an argument - someone being on the incorrect side of the debate, sometimes because of ignorance or misunderstanding.

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  • com/2009/10/04/55-the-blind-men-and-the-elephant-john-godfrey-saxe / And so these men of Hindustan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And all were in the wrong .
  • Usually the context refers to an argument - someone being on the incorrect side of the debate, sometimes because of ignorance or misunderstanding.
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It is not often used: "in the wrong."

in in the poem "The Blind Men and the Elephant" the penultimate stanza reads:

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