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The phrase 'had the wrong idea' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a misperception. For example, "At first, I had the wrong idea about what she meant."
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He had the wrong idea.
He never listens to you — in case you had the wrong idea about that, too".
and people in the business just had the wrong idea about me".
InBloom hit the wall not because it had the wrong idea, but one that was ahead of its time.
I had the wrong idea about Trollope for years, based on a cursory scan of his work in my 20s.
Wallace explained that he thought people had the wrong idea about him, saying: "I've been portrayed as a womanising football hooligan, but I don't recognise that person.
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She acted as though everyone had the wrong ideas about things that, in fact, they'd never thought about: jerboas, or pangolins, or plumet basilisks.
She just had the wrong ideas about life and – in a modern way, for which I couldn't reproach her – felt entitled to them.
By extension, the problem was more that the Nazis had the wrong ideas, than that they were in some sense supernaturally evil.
"They have the wrong idea about Mississippi.
"We have the wrong idea about sharks," he said.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com