crossed wires
Example Sentences
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Evidently, your reservation was handled by multiple online agencies, which made your resolution a little more complicated and may have led to the crossed wires.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 17, 2023
There was also a study which found when you put autistic people with neurotypicals, there are always gonna be crossed wires because we communicate differently.
From Salon • May 14, 2023
Instead, it felt like there were a lot of crossed wires in Ten Hag's first game in charge.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2022
The result was that the cell growth signals in the cancer cells were reversed, like crossed wires.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2012
One time when a neighbor’s TV set broke, Dad opened the back and used a macaroni noodle to insulate some crossed wires.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
