yanlış kapı çalmak

bark up the wrong tree, come to the wrong shop

to bark up the wrong tree, to come to the wrong shop

yanlış Fehler m; fehlerhaft, verkehrt, falsch;

yanlış anlamak falsch verstehen, missverstehen;

yanlış bilmek falsch unterrichtet sein;

yanlış yola gitmek den verkehrten Weg einschlagen;

yanlış kapı çalmak fig sich an die verkehrte Adresse wenden;

yanlış numara TEL (Sie haben sich) verwählt; fig (du bist) auf dem falschen Dampfer;

hesabı(nı) yanlış tutmak sich verrechnen;

yanlış yere fälschlich

"1. error, blunder, mistake; misstep. 2. wrong, incorrect, erroneous. 3. wrongly, incorrectly, erroneously: Beni yanlış anlama! Don´t get me wrong!/Don´t misinterpret what I´m saying. Onu yanlış tanıyorsun. You´ve got a wrong impression of her./You don´t know her as she really is. -ını çıkarmak /ın/ to find (someone´s) mistake, find where (someone) went wrong. - çıkmak to turn out to be wrong; (for a mathematical calculation) to come out wrong. -ı çıkmak /ın/ (for someone) to turn out to be wrong. - hesap Bağdat´tan döner. proverb When you discover that you´ve made a mistake, you ought always to correct it, no matter what the cost. - düşmek (for someone) to get the wrong number, have the wrong number (after dialing a telephone number). - kapı çalmak to go to the wrong person or place, bark up the wrong tree: Yanlış kapı çaldın. You´ve come to the wrong person. -ı olmak /ın/ to be mistaken: Yanlışın var. You´re mistaken. - yere by mistake."

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