"bark at the wrong tree" meaning in English

See bark at the wrong tree in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: barks at the wrong tree [present, singular, third-person], barking at the wrong tree [participle, present], barked at the wrong tree [participle, past], barked at the wrong tree [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} bark at the wrong tree (third-person singular simple present barks at the wrong tree, present participle barking at the wrong tree, simple past and past participle barked at the wrong tree)
  1. Misconstruction of bark up the wrong tree Tags: alt-of, misconstruction Alternative form of: bark up the wrong tree
    Sense id: en-bark_at_the_wrong_tree-en-verb-jdfftCwo Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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