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The expression is barking up the wrong tree surely? I guess it refers to dogs chasing after some creature or person who has climbed up a tree - elswhere?

If you are barking up the wrong tree, you are complaining or arguing about the wrong subject; you are making a big noise over the wrong thing.

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