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词汇 barking-up-the-wrong-tree
释义

barking up the wrong tree


idiom
trying to do something in a way that will not work:
His attorney suggested that the investigators might be barking up the wrong tree.

Examples of barking up the wrong tree


barking up the wrong tree
Moving towards culturally competent dementia care: have we been barkingupthewrongtree?
Barkingupthewrongtree?
I really think he is barkingupthewrongtree there, and it is a pure mare's nest.
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I think we are barkingupthewrongtree.
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He seemed to think he had stumbled on something, but, not for the first time, he is barkingupthewrongtree.
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Those who suggest that it is possible to save £1,000 million overnight are barkingupthewrongtree.
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It is not just barkingupthewrongtree; it is just barking, quite frankly.
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In both cases, she will not do better, however hard she tries, because she is barkingupthewrongtree.
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Are they not, perhaps, barkingupthewrongtree?
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I am inclined to think he is barkingupthewrongtree.
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In doing this, we will purely and simply be barkingupthewrongtree.
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In my view, it is barkingupthewrongtree.
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He must face the fact that he is barkingupthewrongtree.
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If you think that we do want another war, you are barkingupthewrongtree.
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I am not certain that we are not all barkingupthewrongtree about this.
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