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- verb idiomatic To do, believe, or
pursue somethingwrong orinappropriate ; to take the wrongapproach ; to follow a falselead ; toblame orrebuke the wrong person.
Etymologies
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An allusion to a situation in which a hunting dog mistakenly identifies the tree up which it has chased an animal and positions itself at the base of another tree, barking upward at the branches.
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