'take the wrong turn' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a mistake made when following a route or making a decision. For example, "I took the wrong turn and now I'm lost."
On a given day, if you take the wrong turn you can lose six months.
Let us hope it does not take the wrong turn, again.
"If we take the wrong turn now, we risk subjecting people to two decades of the Tories.
A labyrinth differs from a maze, which can have more than one entrance and many choices of paths that often dead-end if you take the wrong turn.
The image, which has been posted to Facebook, depicts a long, straight road with the slogan "Don't let Britain take the wrong turn".
Just be sure not to take the wrong turn … Here, conspirators operate more like gangsters than liberators, as they don the fedora and trenchcoat rather than the French flag and beret, before silencing one of their own instead of their Nazi occupiers.
And if you take the wrong turning at Chesterfield you'll end up in Dewsbury.
As the English author Cyril Connolly observed: "Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk".
But high school leads straight to college, and somehow the choice represents a forking road on which we all fear taking the wrong turn.
"We took the wrong turn," he said, looking down at the restaurant table, where a dish of thick seafood chowder offered to him was growing cold.
Louis again shows an abundance of energy, however; he must've taken the wrong turn in the maze about eight times in a row before he realized the cheese was to the left.
