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tree

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BARK UP THE WRONG TREE,

CAN'T SEE THE WOOD FOR THE TREES,

UP A TREE.

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bark up the wrong tree

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[up a tree] {adv.} or {adj. phr.} 1. Hunted or chased into a tree; treed. * /The dog drove the coon up a tree so the hunter could shoot him./ […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[family tree] {n.} Ancestry. * /My family tree can be traced back to the sixteenth century./ A Dictionary of American Idioms

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