• to get sy wrong, to take sy in the wrong way, to take sy up wrong
• to take a word in the wrong sense
• misapprehension, misconception, misunderstanding
• ambiguous, dubious, equivocal
• express, point-blank, pointed, unambiguous, unmistakable
• emphatically, explicitly, in so many words, point-blank, pointedly, unmistakably, without equivocal phrases
• to send sy away with a flea in his ear
• you get me wrong there, you took me up wrong there
• you get me wrong there, you took me up wrong there