O, öğle yemeğinde zamanında olmak için babasına söz verdi.
- She promised her father to be in time for lunch.
Tom'un yerinde olmak istemem.
- I wouldn't like to be in Tom's shoes.
See here what it says in Wiktionary. So, you were in the wrong about the meaning of that word.
... They're just wrong. ...
... is acknowledged as the wrong way to solve problems, let's not paper over this division ...