wrong door
Not your room
Wrong door describes a situation where law enforcement forcibly enters the wrong residence, typically during a raid.
The phrase captures both the literal mistake and its often violent consequences: They shot an innocent grandmother in a wrong-door raid.
More broadly, wrong door can describe any misdirected effort or bureaucratic error where someone ends up in the wrong place or with the wrong person: I got transferred to six departments—total wrong-door situation.
- entrancePoint of access
- mistakeWrong action or decision
- lockedFastened with a mechanism
- apartmentRented unit in building
- hallwayInterior connecting passage
stranger · mistaken identity · stranger danger · key · knock · embarrassing · intruder · threshold · handle · corridor · apartment building · hotel room · neighbor · oops · confused · nervous laughter · apology · horror
- comic mishapsmistaken identity, misunderstanding, mix-up, miscommunication, blunder
- slapstickpratfall, banana peel, pie throw, falling down, custard pie
- meet-cutescoffee spill, spilled coffee, mistaken identity, spilled drink, crossing paths