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Meaning: (idiomatic)To take awrongturnormissa turn in ajourney, so reaching a place distant from the original goal.2008, Paul Beatty,Slumberland[1], page158:Against the glacial backdrop he looked like a lost minstrel who'dtaken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.2010, Elaine Chaney,Sanity, Interrupted..[2], page18:Anyways, he must havetaken a wrong turn at Albuquerquebecause I walked in on him using our restroom facilities and appearing to be very confused.2013, Liliana Cohen, Daniel M. Shindler, “17: Congenital Heart Disease”, in Christopher Gallagher, John C Sciarra, Steven Ginsberg, editors,Board Stiff TEE: Transesophageal Echocardiography, 2nd edition,page163:Since cardiac embryology can be summed up as 9 months of looping and unlooping, you can think of the congenitally malformed heart as havingtaken the wrong turn at Albuquerque, and not just one time.2014, Michael W. Corrigan,Debunking ADHD: 10 Reasons to Stop Drugging Kids for Acting Like Kids[3], page44: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 navigatorstook a wrong turn at Albuquerque.2021July 14, A. A. Dowd, “Space Jam: A New Legacyis one big, witless commercial forWarner Bros.properties”, inThe A.V. Club[4]: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 bothtook a wrong turn at Albuquerque.
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