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What does barking up the wrong tree mean?

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  1. present participle of bark up the wrong tree
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If they don't look at that seriously, we were barking up the wrong tree.
So he took me through some exercises and he just stops within a minute and says, 'Jason, you're barking up the wrong tree.
The controversy that is now starting up about the tactics the Russian authorities used in freeing the Moscow hostages is just the media barking up the wrong tree as usual.
All the opposition members are barking up the wrong tree, and do not have the right figures.
And assuming that there had been a positive correlation between such crimes and women dressing, you would still be barking up the wrong tree.
We also tried formulating a cunning plan to discourage a girl who's after him and needs to know she's barking up the wrong tree.

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