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What does barking up the wrong tree mean?

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Verb
  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.
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.
A discovery of that sort would indeed leave the Kennel Club barking up the wrong tree.
Perhaps social critics are simply barking up the wrong tree.
We feel we are tantalizing close to a complete unified theory, but we might be miles away or 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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