all wet

1. Completely wrong, mistaken, as in If you think you can beat the system and win at roulette, you're all wet. The original allusion in this expression is unclear, that is, how moisture or dampness is related to wrongness. [Slang; first half of 1900s]

Example Sentences

"But we really need a ban on their manufacture and mandatory 'do not flush' labelling on all wet wipes."

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"We don't have food - the flour got all wet. We're people who've been destroyed. Where do we go? There's no shelter for us to go to now."

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"She was all wet, I told her she's going to need it," Ms Garcia told the BBC.

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“Extreme wet years usually require all wet season months to be wet,” he said.

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“My clothes are all wet, and I am unable to change them,” said Alaa Mansour, who was sheltering at a hospital in central Gaza.

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Related Words

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• biased 
• contradictory 
• foolish 
• illogical 
• inconsistent 
• irrational 
• preposterous 
• senseless 
• silly 
• stupid 
• wrong