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- An allusion to a situation in which a hunting dog misidentifies the tree up which it has chased an animal and positions itself at the base of another tree, barking upward at the branches.
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Submitted on September 01, 2009
Additional definitions for 'bark up the wrong tree':
Bark Up the Wrong Tree | To have a wrong guess or idea about someone or some situation, efforts and attentions being diverted in a wrong direction |
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