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Compound Forms:
InglésEspañol
bark up the wrong tree v expr figurative, informal (follow a mistaken idea) (coloquial)mear fuera del tiesto, mear fuera del tarro expr
  estar equivocado loc verb
Note: Often used in continuous tenses.
 The boss thinks Sharon stole the money but he's barking up the wrong tree--she wasn't even in the office that day.
  Is something important missing? Report an error or suggest an improvement.

'bark tree' aparece también en las siguientes entradas:
In the English description:
girdle

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