单词 | to be barking up the wrong tree |
释义 | to be barking up the wrong tree phrase [usually cont] See full dictionary entry for tree If you say that someone is barking up the wrong tree, you mean that they are following the wrong course of action because their beliefs or ideas about something are incorrect. [informal] Scientists in Switzerland realised that most other researchers had been barking up the wrong tree. |
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