Responding to something what isn't the important.
To be mistaken, to be looking for solutions in the wrong place
If you think that all of this is to blame China, then you barking up the wrong tree.
The Brits is blaming the immigrants for the job crisis, but they're barking up the wrong tree there.
There is no origin for this idiom
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Common phrase that has a specific meaning.