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be barking up the wrong tree
informalDefinition
(Definition of be barking up the wrong tree from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Accurate and exact
- Approximate
- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Correcting and mending
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Making mistakes
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
- Unsuitable and unacceptable
- Wanting everything to be right
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be back on your feet idiom
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be backward in coming forward idiom
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be bad luck on sb idiom
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be bang on idiom
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be banging, etc. your head against a brick wall idiom
- be barking up the wrong tree idiom
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be behind sb (all the way) idiom
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be behind sb idiom
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be bent on sth/doing sth idiom
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be beside yourself idiom
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be better than sex idiom
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SMART Thesaurus: Wrong
Synonyms and related words:
- aberrant adjective
- abnormal adjective
- amiss adjective
- awry adjective, adverb
- back the wrong horse idiom
- flawed adjective
- gross adjective (UNACCEPTABLE)
- grossly adverb
- have no business doing sth idiom
- imprecise adjective
- impropriety noun
- invalid adjective
- irregular adjective (RULE)
- mal- prefix
- mis- prefix
- mistaken adjective
- off beam adjective
- quarrel with sth phrasal verb
- wrong adjective (NOT CORRECT)
- wrongly adverb
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