I was very young at the time and may have got the wrong end of the stick?

What if we've got the wrong end of the stick.

You never got anything but the short end of the stick.

Think you have the wrong end of the stick here.

For getting the wrong end of the stick, I mean.

Workers see they're getting the short end of the stick.

You think you're getting the short end of the stick?

The poor black always got the wrong end of the stick.

But the fact is he got the short end of the stick from us.

He could see beyond the wall, but not the other end of the stick.