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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 207. The idiom today is bark up
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the wrong tree. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.
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If someone is barking up the wrong tree, he or she has made the wrong choice or
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is following the wrong course of action or accusing the wrong person of
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something. So this could be used in several different ways. All right. Let's continue here. The origin of this phrase is believed to come from
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hunting. A hunting dog will usually bark at the bottom of a tree in which a
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hunted animal or bird is in to inform his master where the prey is. You know
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where the hunted animal is. So he'll be barking ( ruff, ruff, ruff) at the bottom of the tree. Okay.
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However, sometimes the hunted prey has already left. They're already gone or
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moved on to another tree. Thus the dog is barking up the wrong
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tree. Okay. Let's look at some examples here.
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Example number one. Most conservative political commentators think Muller you
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know, the special counsel Muller is barking up the wrong tree with his
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investigation of Trump and Russian collusion after the 2016 elections. Yeah.
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If they haven't found anything in almost two years. There's really probably
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nothing there. There may have never been anything there. There might have been
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some cheating in that 2016 election but it probably wasn't here. He's probably
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barking up the wrong tree. He's following the wrong course of
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action or possibly even accusing the wrong person.
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Let's look at number two. If you major in Medieval Studies and expect to have many
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good job opportunities when you graduate, you are barking up the wrong
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tree. If you choose that major you will have limited job opportunities.
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Yeah. So in this case again.You are probably following the wrong course. Your
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following the wrong course of action if you want to have a good career and a lot of
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job opportunities that's not the thing to major in. So you're barking up the
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wrong tree in that sense, And let's look at the last
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one. If you imagine that everything will be peaches and cream you know , everything
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is sweet and perfect. And you will have a fairytale life by marrying into the
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royal family you may be barking up the wrong tree. I'm sure there's a lot of
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pressures behind the scenes of living in a royal family, A lot of expectations. You
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have the media will be hunting you down and you know if you if you look at a
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Princess Diana's life it didn't seem like a fairy tale. So if that was your
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goal. Then by marrying into the royal family you may be barking up the wrong
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tree. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.
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Bye-bye.