What does the underlined idiom mean?
Donald is an honest person. If you are interrogating him about the missing money, you arebarking up the wrong tree.

To question incessantly

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To accuse the wrong person

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To verbally insult the accused

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To intimidate the person till he/she confesses

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Solution

The correct option is B
To accuse the wrong person

‘Barking up the wrong tree’ means to wrongly accuse someone or to completely misunderstand something.

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