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under the impression

  1. Thinking, assuming, or believing something, as in I was under the impression that they were coming today. This idiom often suggests that the idea or belief one had is mistaken. [Mid-1800s]



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“But no one voted to deport moms. We were all under the impression we were just getting rid of the gangs, the people who came here in droves.”

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Mr Gale said he was under the impression this was for the whole family but he now believes the Home Office only saw this as a report for the parents.

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But he met and consulted with an autistic patient and the patient’s mother, who apparently was under the impression that he was a doctor.

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But no one, at USC or elsewhere, is under the impression that the Trojans can simply plug someone in place of one of college basketball’s brightest stars either.

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She "remained under the impression that her parents had bought the property for her", Sir Laurie added, but had to correct the record when she became a government minister.

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