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

I know he doesn’t own a mobile, so I ask how to reach him, alarmed that because of crossed wires we will miss each other that night.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2019

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