Barking up the wrong tree is a common idiom in English. It means to blame the wrong person for something bad. Watch the video to find out all the details about it!
Barking up the wrong tree meaning: Blaming the wrong person.
Barking up the wrong tree origin:
It's from the 1800s in the USA, where hunting dogs would bark at the base of a tree when they thought a wild animal like a raccoon was in it so that their owners could shoot it. But, the wild animal had sometimes had already escaped which left the dogs barking at the wrong tree.
Barking up the wrong tree examples:
"You're barking up the wrong tree here. Jeremiah broke your phone, not me."
"My mom is always barking up the wrong tree and blaming me for stuff that my brother does."
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