be barking up the wrong tree
informalto be wrong about the reason for something or the way to achieve something:
She thinks it'll solve the problem, but I think she's barking up the wrong tree.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wrong
- aberrant
- abnormal
- amiss
- anomaly
- awry
- bark
- gross
- grossly
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise
- impropriety
- inaccurate
- invalid 1
- irregular
- misspeak
- mistaken
- off beam
- quarrel with sth
- speak
- speak too soon idiom
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