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put two and two together and make five
idiom informalhumorous
to understand a particular situation wrongly, often in a way that is more shocking or exciting than the truth: 听风就是雨
"Why in the world did she think you were pregnant?" "I was sick a couple of times, and I guess she just put two and two together and made five."“她究竟为什么会认为你怀孕了？”“我曾呕吐过一两次，我猜她就这样想了。”
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Concluding and deducing
analysis
deduce
deduce something from something
deducible
deductive
diagnosis
draw
gather
hypothetico-deductive
impute something to someone
in the last/final analysisidiom
inconclusively
induction
maths
non-deductive
put
put something down to something
put two and two togetheridiom
reason
syllogism
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Misunderstanding
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