Sentence examples for getting it backwards from inspiring English sources

This is getting it backwards.

But about 220 mostly African American community organizers, parents and students from 21 cities from New York to Oakland, Calif., converged on Washington Tuesday to tell U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan he's getting it backwards on school closures.

WASHINGTON -- The standards-based education reform movement calls school change "the civil rights issue of our time". But about 220 mostly African American community organizers, parents and students from 21 cities from New York to Oakland, Calif., converged on Washington Tuesday to tell U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan he's getting it backwards on school closures.

So for me, the tattoos were the sign of a culture grappling with the meaning of this encounter --turning in over in their minds, getting it wrong, getting it backwards, getting it sometimes right --and arriving at a dawning awareness of a mental coupling that is happening, that is manifest, that is all wrong but potentially, eventually, all right.

John, you've got it backwards.

Ridley has got it backwards again.

"People get it backwards," said Mr. Bachardy, 74.

But they've got it backwards.

HAS Indonesia's new president got it backwards?

"I think we tend to get it backwards," one cadet told me.

Am I still me?" "I don't say because of manners, but actually he's got it backwards.