the wrong crowd

the wrong crowd

A group of people, typically peers, who partake in and elicit immoral, criminal, and/or dangerous behavior and attitudes. Mary had been a model student all her life, but when she got to senior year of high school, she started hanging out with the wrong crowd, and her grades suffered as a result. Because there is no sort of network in place to keep young people active and engaged in this part of the city, it's all too easy for them to fall in with the wrong crowd.
See also: crowd, wrong
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • cause (some) eyebrows to raise
  • cause eyebrows to raise and cause some raised eyebrows
  • cause raised eyebrows
  • cause some raised eyebrows
  • eyebrow
  • raise (some/a few) eyebrows
  • raise some eyebrows
  • partake of
  • partake of (something)
  • fish for a compliment
References in periodicals archive
Birmingham Crown Court was told the 17-year-old had the support of a loving family but 'got in with the wrong crowd' before the series of muggings.
Derwayne Mitchell - Dalton Primary School DERWAYNE would be the first to admit that he started out on a rocky path, mixing with the wrong crowd and getting into trouble with the police.
But, as Rachael Canning, from Devon-based theatre makers The Wrong Crowd, discovered, that's not necessarily true.
His family said they remembered a sporty child who showed great promise, but who just fell in with the wrong crowd.
His family, who said they knew Mr Thomas was "no angel", said they remembered a sporty child who showed great promise, but who just fell in with the wrong crowd.
He then "fell in with the wrong crowd" and ended up on drugs.
DENNIS has definitely got caught up in the wrong crowd, and today Keanu tries to help him out.
He told the court: "I got in with the wrong crowd and ended up doing stupid things."
Simon gets in with the wrong crowd, meeting with Tyler and the gang down at the cafe.
"I got into the wrong crowd, got into trouble and then lost my flat, so I'd made some bad mistakes," said Jordan.
In the music video directed by Clarence Peters, Waje plays a pimp, Banky W is a truck pusher, Ali Baba acts a gambling area tout, Kelechi Amadi-Obi enacts the role of a drug addict, Chidinma seemed to be indebted to the wrong crowd, while Joke Silva and Ini Edo are a poor mother-daughter pair.
Opera North and The Wrong Crowd collaborate for the first time to present a new production of Jonathan Dove's family chamber opera Swanhunter.
Hamid, though just a child, works hard to sustain his family by any means, but eventually gets involved with the wrong crowd and ends up in prison.
Hamid, though just a child, works hard to sustain his family by any means, but eventually he gets involved with the wrong crowd and one day is thrown into prison.
When Doone falls in with the wrong crowd, a TV therapist offers to help.