barking up the wrong tree

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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree. Pablo Picasso

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree. Billy Gibbons

If you were a kid actor, if you had any plans of being an actor as an adult, you were really barking up the wrong tree. Susan Olsen

You are barking up the wrong tree. Traditional Proverb

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