Idiom
get into the wrong hands
Meaning
To fall into the wrong hands.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Keep your password safe so it does not get into the wrong hands.”
“The company tightened its security protocols to ensure that sensitive client data would not get into the wrong hands.”
“The scientist feared that if his dangerous research were to get into the wrong hands, it could cause irreparable harm to global security.”
Examples
simple
“Keep your password safe so it does not get into the wrong hands.”
contextual
“The company tightened its security protocols to ensure that sensitive client data would not get into the wrong hands.”
complex
“The scientist feared that if his dangerous research were to get into the wrong hands, it could cause irreparable harm to global security.”
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