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What do you mean by the idiom up in the tree?

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∙ 13y ago
Updated: 9/19/2023

I think you mean "up A tree." It means that you are cornered, and have no way out of a situation. The image is from hunting, when a dog would corner an animal up a tree. The animal could not come down, but it could not escape, either. "Up a tree" means you have no solution in sight.

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