"classic misunderstanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a situation that is commonly misunderstood and happens often. For example: "John and Mary's argument was the result of a classic misunderstanding."
"This is an absolute classic misunderstanding," Ms. Goetz told Reuters.
It sounds to me as if you and your friend had a classic misunderstanding: He thought he was offering helpful advice, but you heard it as criticism.
It's a classic misunderstanding, I think, stemming from an unexamined hierarchy: the assumption that anything stylized (or formulaic, or pleasurable, or funny, or feminine, or explicit about sex rather than about violence, or made collaboratively) must be inferior.
But Joel Engelman, 23, who grew up in the Orthodox community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and who helped found a group of victims called Survivors for Justice, said that while "well-intentioned," Mr. Hikind had a classic misunderstanding about sexual predators that is embedded in insular communities like the Catholic priesthood or the Orthodox world.
It was a classic misunderstanding on "The Mindy Project".
I think that it was just one of those classic misunderstandings, in the sense that I don't understand why you keep sending me dozens of brochures, and you don't stop sending me brochures.
Yet this is a misunderstanding of classic cabaret.
Also, such lesions may have been diagnosed as 'traditional IMH' when ulceration was not evident enough in traditional imaging modalities, which caused the etiological confusion and misunderstanding with classic aortic dissection and its variants [16].
This misunderstanding is a classic comedic trope, but it also reveals something crucial about hypochondria, and mental illness generally.
There's a common belief that pimps are business partners of prostitutes, but that's a complete misunderstanding of the classic relationship.
These interpretations are incorrect due to the misunderstanding of the classic or frequentist (frequency based view of probability) statistical reporting used in this and most trials [32] [35].
