Under-the-impression meaning

(idiomatic, followed by a clause) Thinking or making assumptions, often incorrectly.

We opened a store in Beijing under the impression that our product would be popular.

Under the impression he was about to be fired, he decided to quit.

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Sentence Examples

  • Your mother seems to be under the impression that you want to stay here - permanently.

  • I ran into the Original Vamp already and am under the impression all the Original Beings are free.

  • No offense, but I'm under the impression the others didn't have a chance to object.

  • They left Callao on the 21st of December 1605, and in the following year discovered the island now known as Espiritu Santo, one of the New Hebrides group, which De Quiros, under the impression that it was indeed the land of which he was in search, named La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo.

  • The tsar, Alexander III., under the impression of the assassination of his father, desired, however, the renewal of the Dreikaiserbund, both as a guarantee of European peace and as a conservative league against revolutionary parties.

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