on the wrong tack

Idioms  

1. Also, on the wrong track. See under on the right tack.

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on the wrong tack

Are the imitators of Picasso also on the wrong tack?

From Time Magazine Archive

You're on the wrong tack, my boy, the wrong tack.

From Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers by F. Anstey

But let me say that you have taken me on the wrong tack.

From Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing by Oliver Optic

But you are on the wrong tack Genie.

From In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown

While scientific men, led by Liebig, the creator of the chemical theory of agriculture, often got on the wrong tack in their love of mere theories, unlettered agriculturists opened up new roads to prosperity.

From The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince

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