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idiomsb is barking up the wrong treeused in order to say that someone has the wrong idea about a situation, or about how to get a particular result:If they think ethnic cookery lessons for kids will lead to good race relations, they're barking up the wrong tree - it's harder than that to teach people respect for one another.Ferrell insists he had nothing to do with the bombing, and said that federal agents are barking up the wrong tree.
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