under the impression

1. Thinking, assuming, or believing something, as in I was under the impression that they were coming today. This idiom often suggests that the idea or belief one had is mistaken. [Mid-1800s]

Example Sentences

The journalists were waiting around under the impression that ICE was going to make an arrest when the court let out.

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Vargas wrote in her dismissal that the song’s creation “in the midst of a rap battle is essential to assessing its impact on a reasonable listener” and that such a listener “is not under the impression that a diss track is the product of a thoughtful or disinterested investigation.”

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Moreover, his continuing work on “Family Ties” meant that “Back to the Future” had to be shot at night, roughly from 7:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., inconveniencing a cast and crew that had been under the impression the job was nearly finished.

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Her family was under the impression she was studying dressmaking and following in the steps of her family.

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He says a formal offer was submitted by another Premier League club and he was "under the impression, from all my conversations with Brentford, that there was a mutual agreement to part ways".

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