Sentences with phrase «wrong end of the stick»

Sorry if I've got the wrong end of the stick.

Yeah, remember all those mad things we used to do: — RRB --RRB- @Conor, she's a darling really... just don't get at the wrong end of her stick: — RRB - Me and bacon sarnies are easier to deal with... I actually managed to find English bacon here in Canada, can't wait for my sarnie tomorrow.

I am not saying counter attacking football is bad — I'm saying you've got the wrong end of the stick about how it works.

I think this would be too frustrating for Vardy's character and the aggression that we have seen he can sometimes have, may end up causing him to be on the wrong end of the stick if he gets frustrated with Arsenal's slow build up.

You have got the wrong end of the stick here.

Mrs May is keenly aware that EU leaders like Merkel and Hollande could get the wrong end of the stick if they read the media's interpretation of Westminster politics.

Let me deal with the Government's record, not because we want to oppose for the sake of opposition — indeed we have supported several government measures to tackle low skilled immigration and remove foreign criminals — but because the last few weeks of vanman style gimmicks have both left a nasty taste in the mouth and have suggested that the government have got the wrong end of the stick.

I hope to do three things: first, look at the value and the challenges that immigration has brought and continues to bring to the UK; second, lay out where I think the Government is getting hold of the wrong end of the stick; and third, suggest some areas that Labour believes need to be addressed in making migration work for everyone, especially in relation to the labour market, the EU, sham marriages and the push factors in international migration.

But the truth of course is that Prezza is only too happy to purposely pick up the wrong end of the stick so he has something to sound off about.

The people know they got the wrong end of the stick.

He rowed back on previous remarks suggesting ministers would have to resign if they wanted to campaign for Britain's exit from the EU by suggesting that lobby journalists had got the wrong end of the stick.

He said critics had got «entirely the wrong end of the stick» adding: «This dissolution vote, the 55 % for a dissolution, is not the same as, for a vote of confidence.»

Your correspondents Steve Champion and Carol Primrose offer differing explanations for the origin of the term «wrong end of the stick» (12 February, p 27).

Could the software be evaluated so that we knew it had not got hold of the wrong end of the stick?

Kevin Scott asks if anybody can tell him which is the wrong end of a stick (22 January, p 27).

On a trip to Trim Castle in Ireland, a museum guide informed me that the term «wrong end of the stick» derives from the practice of stirring a dung heap.

If you're coming to internet dating with a shopping list for your ideal man / woman you've got the wrong end of the stick.

I like to think that I'm a gentleman who just drew the wrong end of the stick.

The subject of Britishness looms large when considering this film, and is obviously the reason so many got the wrong end of the stick.

Trilling starts off by saying we can not possibly identify with this, and then he goes on to show that we can, but of course the Tom Townsend [Edward Clements] character in the movie gets the wrong end of the stick.

I did read an article the other day about how agents have now gotten into the business of «helping» self - publishers, who still get the wrong end of the stick.

I've seen a number of people in the last few days picking up on a controversy that swept through the self - publishing world last week, and almost uniformly people have picked up on the wrong end of the stick.

What once was a pleasure, now begins on the wrong end of the stick.

Their demographic is taken care of, but in English speaking countries, the demographic has gotten the wrong end of the stick.

I think I got the wrong end of the stick on that then.

The advantage of attending a preview extends beyond the free champagne and celebrity spotting to the opportunity to be corrected by the artist herself when the critic too quickly grasps the wrong end of the stick.

I misunderstood your first post and continued to hold the wrong end of the stick.

John Lang, you have firmly grasped the wrong end of the stick.

You have got hold of the wrong end of the stick with the Mandia article.

I always know when somone's holding the wrong end of the stick when they start making up nonsense like that.

Adam Gallon:» I think t - p - hamilton's got the wrong end of the stick here.

I think t - p - hamilton's got the wrong end of the stick here.

Nick Stokes as always grabs the wrong end of the stick ``..

Saying that it's the «algorithm» creating the bias inside an organisation is often to get the wrong end of the stick.

I stand to be corrected if I have the wrong end of the stick on this latter point.

In recent times we have had too much governmental interference, solely on the ground that ignorant members of the public might get hold of the wrong end of the stick, with long - standing constitutional arrangements that work extremely well.

Don't be afraid to ask for clarification as you don't want to get the wrong end of the stick — the employer would rather you ask for clarification and nail the task, rather than to remain quiet and fail completely.