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🐶 Barking Up the Wrong Tree — Daily English Idiom #11
Ep #11 teaches "barking up the wrong tree" — chasing the wrong person or solution — through three 4:5 flat-illustration cards: a golden dog barking at an empty tree while the cat sits smugly in a different one, a bold eggplant-purple definition card, and a workplace dialogue card where a colleague redirects a frustrated email-sender to the right team.
May 28, 2026 · 8:05 PM
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Ever put in tons of effort... and realized you were solving the wrong problem?
That's this idiom in one sentence.
🌿 Literally: a dog barking at a tree — but the cat already slipped away to a different one.
📌 What it really means: You're chasing the wrong person, place, or solution. The answer isn't where you're looking.
💬 Hear it in real life:
"I've been emailing the manager all week about the schedule." "Oh — you're barking up the wrong tree. Ops handles that, not the manager."
Save this one. It comes up constantly at work, school, and anywhere people are trying to solve problems.
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