Vocabulary

Idioms

Easy

The intern completely misunderstood the instructions and got ________.

a dog with a bone

pie in the sky

the wrong end of the stick

the bee's knees

✅ Correct Option: 3

To 'get the wrong end of the stick' means to misunderstand something completely. This directly matches the intern misunderstanding the instructions. 'Pie in the sky' means an unrealistic hope; 'the bee's knees' means something excellent.

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The intern completely misunderstood the instructions and got ________.

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