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What does under the impression mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word under the impression? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. (idiomatic, followed by a clause) Thinking or making assumptions, often incorrectly.
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He was under the impression, furthermore, that England was infinitely wealthy, which was not the case.
They seem to be under the impression that it is both obvious and beyond dispute and, therefore, no argument even needs to be made.
I think I was under the impression that I was going to come back to it and flesh it out in more detail.
I think I spent most of my childhood under the impression that I just wasn't trying hard enough, or that perhaps my vision was somehow defective.
Was the poor gentleman under the impression that I am a councillor or a psychiatrist instead of just a newspaper hack?
Recall that Heidi seemed to be under the impression that cosets could be defined ostensively.

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