Meaning of take a wrong turn at Albuquerque | Babel Free

Definitions

To take a wrong turn or miss a turn in a journey, so reaching a place distant from the original goal.

idiomatic

Examples

“Against the glacial backdrop he looked like a lost minstrel who'd taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.”

“Anyways, he must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque because I walked in on him using our restroom facilities and appearing to be very confused.”

“Since cardiac embryology can be summed up as 9 months of looping and unlooping, you can think of the congenitally malformed heart as having taken the wrong turn at Albuquerque, and not just one time.”

“But somewhere on the road to creating a useful tool for psychiatry, in my opinion the wheels fell off the bus, or, more accurately, the carpool's navigators took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.”

“It takes 25 minutes for Bugs Bunny to tunnel his way into that sequel, becoming the first Looney Tune to appear in this supposed Looney Tunes movie. Maybe the rabbit and his studio both took a wrong turn at Albuquerque.”

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