well in this lesson we're going to talk about American English idioms are you
ready let's begin
bark up the wrong tree bark up the wrong tree a tree to bark like a dog yeah
that's what it sounds like but no I don't think so
bark up the wrong tree that means to talk to the wrong person about something
or to go about doing something in the wrong way what would be an example of
that well how about your police officer and you need to solve a crime there was
a robbery and you're going around the next day talking to some people in the
neighborhood well the people you're talking to they know nothing about it
but you keep pursuing them trying to get information out of them well comes to be
that you're barking up the wrong tree why those people weren't home they
weren't home they don't know anything about it they really don't
so you're barking up the wrong tree now maybe you start up a new business and
you decide of a course of action you're going to take to bring in new customers
right and hey well you end up going about it wrong and you don't get any
customers so the way you've been advertising the way you've been
marketing it wasn't working for the type of business that you have so people
might say hey he was barking up the wrong tree he should have done it a
different way barked up the wrong tree that's
concludes our videos that concludes our idioms thank you for watching this video
lesson and I look forward to seeing you at our next lesson goodbye for now