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Discover LudwigThe phrase "taken a wrong turn" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to a situation that has become difficult or unpleasant because of a bad decision or a change in circumstances. For example, "After making a few poor investments, his financial situation had taken a wrong turn."
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Has your barber taken a wrong turn?
The cavalry had taken a wrong turn at the pass.
GOOD birding lately, huh? > taken a wrong turn somewhere?" It only stayed momentarily.
I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere?" It only stayed momentarily.
Justice Ginsburg, dissenting, said the majority had taken a wrong turn.
In "Art as Therapy," de Botton argues that museums have taken a wrong turn.
(Hmm. I might have taken a wrong turn in my education somewhere).
Will Champion, of Coldplay, came in looking like a lumberjack who'd taken a wrong turn.
So I wonder if I've taken a wrong turn as I follow the winding river Cam.
Technology, which was supposed to make our lives easier, has taken a wrong turn.
He could have taken a wrong turn and just got lost in another valley.
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