Name: 英語の家庭教師ニックPイディオム (207) Bark Up the Wrong Tree (English Tutor Nick P Idioms (207) Bark Up the Wrong Tree)
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Hi this is Tutor Nick  P and this is Idioms 207. The idiom today is bark up

the wrong tree.  Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.

If someone is barking up the wrong tree,  he or she has made the wrong choice or

is following the wrong course of action or accusing the wrong person of

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

hunting. A hunting dog will usually bark at the bottom of a tree in which a

hunted animal or bird is in to inform his master where the prey is. You know

where the hunted animal is. So he'll be barking ( ruff, ruff, ruff) at the bottom of the tree. Okay.

However,  sometimes the hunted prey has already left. They're already gone or

moved on to another tree.  Thus the dog is barking up the wrong

tree.  Okay. Let's look at some examples here.

Example number one. Most conservative political commentators think Muller you

know,  the special counsel Muller is barking up the wrong tree with his

investigation of Trump and Russian collusion after the 2016 elections. Yeah.

If they haven't found anything in almost two years. There's really probably

nothing there. There may have never been anything there. There might have been

some cheating in that 2016 election but it probably wasn't here. He's probably

barking up the wrong tree.  He's following the wrong course of

action or possibly even accusing the wrong person.

Let's look at number two. If you major in Medieval Studies and expect to have many

good job opportunities when you graduate,  you are barking up the wrong

tree. If you choose that major you will have limited job opportunities.

Yeah. So in this case again.You are probably following the wrong course. Your

following the wrong course of action if you want to have a good career and a lot of

job opportunities that's not the thing to major in. So you're barking up the

wrong tree in that sense, And let's look at the last

one. If you imagine that everything will be peaches and cream you know , everything

is sweet and perfect. And you will have a fairytale life by marrying into the

royal family you may be barking up the wrong tree.  I'm sure there's a lot of

pressures behind the scenes of living in a royal family, A lot of expectations. You

have the media will be hunting you down and you know if you if you look at a

Princess Diana's life it didn't seem like a fairy tale. So if that was your

goal. Then by marrying into the royal family you may be barking up the wrong

tree. Okay. Anyway,  I hope you got it.  I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.