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"badly wrong turn" wouldn't have made it past The New Yorker editors, I don't believe.
I believe that's what Faldage would call an emphatic double negative. Like "Not with my wife, you don't." I think it's perfectably acceptable in USn's colloquial speech, but praps not among our neighbors to the north.
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