Go for
Wrong
Wrong verb - Treat unjustly; do wrong to.
Both terms in one sentence
- When something goes wrong and there's nobody else to sue, the litigious go for precogs on the theory that they could have got the warning out sooner.
- Gilderoy Lockhart (or how the whole staff has taken to call him secretly - Goldilocks) got the wrong idea that Severus Snape fancies him and decides to go for it.
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Wrong Genre Savvy: Unfamiliar with striking on the ground due to the RINGS ruleset, Kopylov tried to turtle up against Sperry in PRIDE, thinking he would go for submissions.
Source: Wrestling / Andrei Kopylov
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