Barking up the wrong tree – Meaning in Hindi, Example

Barking up the wrong treeIdioms Related to Animals · Barking

Meaning: To make the wrong choice, or ask the wrong person. (Imagine Laika barking up a tree thinking there's a squirrel up there, but the squirrel has already run along the branches to another tree.)

Hindi meaning: गलत जगह शोर मचाना।

Example: The government was barking up the wrong tree with their proposal to sell off the UK's forests.

Barking up the wrong tree - To make the wrong choice, or ask the wrong person. (Imagine Laika barking up a tree thinking there's a squirrel up there, but the squirrel has already run along the branches to another tree.)

More idioms: Barking

Be hand and glove — Be very close
By and large — On the whole
By fits and starts — Irregularly, Sporadic
By leaps and bounds — Very rapidly
Carrot and stick policy — Reward and punishment policy
Cut and dried — Readymade
To have ants in your pants — To be unable to keep still because you are very excited or worried about something.
To be like a Bear with a sore head — To be in a bad mood.