get one's wires crossed

Also, have one's wires crossed. Become or be confused or mistaken about something, as in If you think there's a meeting today, you really have your wires crossed; it's not till next month . This expression transfers a wrongly wired telephone or telegraph connection to human misunderstanding. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Latifah	-	Arabic
Flynn	FLIN	English (Rare)
Effie	['efi]
Tamara	tah-MAH-rah (Russian, Spanish, Italian), tə-MAHR-ə (English), TAM-ə-rə (English)	Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian, English, Dutch, S
Jakub	YAH-kuwp (Polish)	Polish, Czech, Slovak
Akbar	-	Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Indian (Muslim)