Barking up the Wrong Tree
Directing your efforts in the wrong direction, making accusations or complaints in the wrong place.
Bark [ba:k]
To bark, to bark (at) (also figuratively).
Etymology
An allusion to the mistake made by hunting dogs when they think they are pursuing prey in a tree, which has however managed to escape to another by jumping from the previous one.
An idiom is a phrase whose meaning differs from the meaning of the words in it, considered individually and by themselves.
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