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Idiom

all wet

Meaning

Utterly incorrect; erroneous; uninformed.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“You are all wet if you think that plan will work.”

“He thought the store was open, but he was all wet because it closed an hour ago.”

“The expert argued that the theory was entirely all wet, as it failed to account for the most basic evidence collected during the study.”

Examples

simple

“You are all wet if you think that plan will work.”

contextual

“He thought the store was open, but he was all wet because it closed an hour ago.”

complex

“The expert argued that the theory was entirely all wet, as it failed to account for the most basic evidence collected during the study.”

Key words

wet

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