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AsklemmyEnglish · 6 months ago

What's your country's "your barking at the wrong tree"

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What's your country's "your barking at the wrong tree"

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AsklemmyEnglish · 6 months ago

My $10 says there will be variants of this catchy phrase. (Help me win this)

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it means you are blaming the wrong thing/person for an issue.
- tiredofsametab@kbin.run
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  I would also add it could be something more like investigating/searching and not necessarily blaming.

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