miss one's guess, to

miss one's guess, to

To be mistaken, to be wrong in one’s assumptions. This phrase, dating from the first half of the 1900s, is often put negatively, as in “And, when you’re older, an overdose of sex appeal, or I miss my guess” (M. de la Roche, Whiteoak Harvest, 1936).
See also: miss
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
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  • egg in your beer, what do you want?
  • be the living end
  • wart
  • upside
  • (one's) whole world was turned upside down
  • (one's) whole world came crashing down around (one)
  • crashing
  • living end
  • the living end