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How to use barking up the wrong tree in a sentence

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After years of barking up the wrong tree, I have reached the breaking point.
See how the how The Age's Stephen Bartholomeusz responds when he believes Herald Sun hack Terry McCrann is barking up the wrong tree.
We feel we are tantalizing close to a complete unified theory, but we might be miles away or barking up the wrong tree.
We also tried formulating a cunning plan to discourage a girl who's after him and needs to know she's barking up the wrong tree.
And assuming that there had been a positive correlation between such crimes and women dressing, you would still be barking up the wrong tree.
Jonathan Landman, culture editor: I think Mr. McGrath is barking up the wrong tree.
So he took me through some exercises and he just stops within a minute and says, 'Jason, you're barking up the wrong tree.
A discovery of that sort would indeed leave the Kennel Club barking up the wrong tree.
Perhaps social critics are simply barking up the wrong tree.
If they don't look at that seriously, we were barking up the wrong tree.
The controversy that is now starting up about the tactics the Russian authorities used in freeing the Moscow hostages is just the media barking up the wrong tree as usual.
All the opposition members are barking up the wrong tree, and do not have the right figures.
However, I believe that it is barking up the wrong tree by putting forward a motion that would encroach upon areas of provincial jurisdiction.
They all went into the house, and left me feeling a precious idiot. I had been barking up the wrong tree this time.
And please do not tell us that we are barking up the wrong tree, and that this revision does not have any implications concerning GMOs, since a regulation of this type already exists for forestry.
They are also barking up the wrong tree when they bring their protest to this Parliament, which has no responsibility for decisions by national governments on whether to hold a referendum.
In doing this, we will purely and simply be barking up the wrong tree.
Anyone, though, who believes that cyclists come off better out of this, even in the planning of the budget, is, as we say, barking up the wrong tree.
Am I barking up the wrong tree, or do you have any comments on Canada giving foreign aid dollars to the countries of China and Zimbabwe, which are so corrupt?
You're not the first man who has made such a mistake, and found he was barking up the wrong tree.
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