A fork of Rural Dictionary
An expression for "wrong" or "I don't think so."
WOMAN: Where were you all night? MAN: At the club. WOMAN: Wrong answer. You was with another woman. My aunt saw you and followed you to her house. Thank God her car wasn't noticeable.
"you're not wrong" = "you're right", however phrasing it as "you're not wrong" usually that there's more to it -- either there's some missing nuance, or the speaker agrees grudgingly or doesn't like this truth or wishes it wasn't so, etc.
Alice: Bob, you drink too much. Bob: You're not wrong.
Fractal wrongness is the state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person's worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you focus on any small part of that person's worldview, that part is just as wrong as the whole worldview.
Person 1: I just came back from a debate with someone who suffered from fractal wrongness. Person 2: What do you mean? Person 1: No matter what he said, it was utterly wrong.
Wrong shaming is when somebody shames you for being wrong.
She wouldn't go around body -shaming people or mocking people for being old so why is it okay to go after me because I'm wrong? She's wrong-shaming me!
Abbreviated version of "barking up the wrong tree" which means mistakenly looking for something in a place where it will not be found. Often used to decline a general invitation before it can be specifically directed towards you.
Person A: "I heard the cops were searching your brother's house for evidence." Person B: "Yeah, wrong tree there." (Person A approaches two of her roommates) Person A: "Oh, I'm so glad I ran into you guys! I really need some help cleaning the apartment." Person B: "Wrong tree."
When you say something weirdly absurd either in a group chat or real life & need a "redo" so people don't think you're an idiot.
Joe: How's your day going today? Bob: Pretty good man, just had sex with a couple squirrels last night Joe: bruh what??! Bob: wrong chat Joe: oh okay
Worse than wrong, being an untestable claim. Originally used by physicist Wolfgang Pauli to criticize pseudoscience even harsher than simple scientific errors:"This is not right. This is not even wrong."
Your theory makes no predictions, comes to no conclusions and is just tons of speculation. It's not even wrong.