get/have your wires crossed

get/have your wires crossed
get/have your wires crossed
informal of two people : to fail to understand each other : to be confused because each person has a different idea about what is happening or being said

We got our wires crossed for a minute there–I thought you were asking me something else.

We must have had our wires crossed.

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