2007-01-26 17:20:49 · 10 answers · asked by smoothrider20002007 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
When you say "Your'e barking up the wrong tree", you're telling someone that they are "Messing witht the wrong person". Someone usually says that when the other person is starting to get on their nerves.
2007-01-26 17:30:08 · answer #1 · answered by EARNEYW 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reference is to a dog that has chased a raccoon, squirrel or cat up one tree and is now barking at the base of another tree, which the wrong tree. It means you are asking the wrong person for information, or looking in the wrong place, or a detective suspects the wrong person for a crime. Your question is an example. This is genealogy, the study of family trees. There is another category, in Education, called Words and Word play.
2007-01-27 02:16:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Barking up the wrong tree" means that you are believing or assuming something to be true when it is not.
"Barking up a tree" is what a dog does when he has an animal cornered in the tree. His bark is to alert the hunter where the prey is.
2007-01-28 02:14:53 · answer #3 · answered by shendley04 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You barking up the wrong tree if you think you get a correct answer to this question. LOL!
2007-01-26 17:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by Snaglefritz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is a refrance to the hound dogs barking at the trees when they chased a fox up a tree. it means that your talkin to the wrong person
2007-01-26 17:27:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The saying is barking up the wrong tree.It means you are enquiring in the wrong area.
2007-01-26 19:47:12 · answer #6 · answered by melbournewooferblue 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when you cant see the right tree for the woods
2007-01-27 03:02:32 · answer #7 · answered by ray.wallwork@btinternet.com 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people use the phrase to someone who assume something that the other person might think he's wrong
2007-01-30 08:12:32 · answer #8 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ASSUMING SOMETHING AND GETTING IT COMPLETELY WRONG
2007-01-29 04:21:33 · answer #9 · answered by Sassy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MY DOG,BUT IM BARKING MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-26 17:29:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋