Barking up the wrong hole
Posted: September 25, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: A Killer Story, blended idioms, expressions, HBO, humor, language, malaphors, words 1 CommentThis one was heard on the HBO series A Killer Story. In Episode 2 at 12:58 Jeffrey Sutton utters this nice malaphor. It is a congruent conflation of “barking up the wrong tree” and “down the rabbit hole”, both meaning to pursue a mistaken course of action. Another tip of the hat to Doug Pietrucha for hearing this one and sending it in.
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