on the wrong tack

Idioms  

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

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Example Sentences

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 Anstey, F.

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 Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz

I collect from what you tell me," said the Police-Inspector, "that my men have been going on the wrong tack.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

He saw, too, that he was on the wrong tack, and a few days later, under pressure of necessity, he tried another.

From Ovington's Bank by Weyman, Stanley J.