# barking up the wrong tree

Pronunciation: US say "bahr-king up thuh rawng TREE" /ˌbɑɹkɪŋ ʌp ðə ˌɹɔŋ ˈtɹi/; UK say "bah-king up thuh rong TREE" /ˌbɑːkɪŋ ʌp ðə ˌɹɒŋ ˈtɹiː/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of bark up the wrong tree. — present participle and gerund of bark up the wrong tree
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of bark up the wrong tree. Use it for the ongoing action of looking in the wrong place.
   - _By blaming the new software for the outage, the manager was barking up the wrong tree._
   - _Investigators eventually admitted they had been barking up the wrong tree for months._

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