daily vokabelmail vom 08.03.2010

Welche Bedeutung steckt hinter der hier vorgestellten Vokabel aus dem Bereich Employee-Boss conversation?

"With respect, I think you've got the wrong end of the stick. What I said in actual fact was that I would like to move to the States some day, but not that I had any concrete plans to do so. I think somebody must have misheard me."

to get the wrong end of the stick

Do you know what it means?

a complete misunderstanding

to ask the wrong person

to look in the wrong place