mistake for

Idioms  

1. Take someone or something for someone or something else, as in I'm sorry, I mistook you for her sister, or Don't mistake that friendly smile for good intentions; he's a tough competitor. [c. 1600]

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Example Sentences

No, it's a not-so-surprising admission from another notorious Hollywood partier, Dennis Quaid, in a short essay called "My Favorite Mistake" for this week's Newsweek.

From Salon • Apr. 11, 2011

Yet though Indians here were playing a heroic role, the advertisement still embodied Holmberg's Mistake, for it implicitly depicted Indians as people who never changed their environment from its original wild state.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

The Art of Printing was not then found out; which was a Mistake, for it had been found out twenty-four Years before, in the Year 1442.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius