IDIOM: BARK UP THE WRONG TREE

 

Bark up the wrong tree Pedir peras al olmo

I think you are barking up the wrong tree. An impossibility  Creo que le pides peras al olmo. Un imposible

— “You’r barking up the wrong tree about the other address.” Fiona Pitt-Kethey, Misfortunes of Nigel, 1991. UK. || “If he expects me to give him a job, he’s barking up the wrong tree.” RH.