{"id":3628,"date":"2012-10-26T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3628"},"modified":"2012-10-30T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T22:38:07","slug":"tree-idioms-treesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/tree-idioms-treesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Idioms &#8211; treesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tree is a plant symbolizing growth, strength and persistence in the face of adversity. It is no wonder it also made its way into colloquial English and has struck roots.<\/p>\n<p><em>to bark up the wrong tree<\/em> = to talk to someone about an issue who can\u00b4t be bothered<\/p>\n<p>e.g.: If you think I will take out the trash <em>you\u00b4re barking up the wrong tree<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>to be up a tree<\/em> = te be in trouble<\/p>\n<p>e.g.: If we can\u00b4t get this done by Friday <em>we will be really up a tree<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>not to be able to see the wood for the trees<\/em> = getting lost in detail<\/p>\n<p>e.g.: If you check this program for each and every bug you will <em>not be able to see the wood for the trees<\/em>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tree is a plant symbolizing growth, strength and persistence in the face of adversity. It is no wonder it also made its way into colloquial English and has struck roots. to bark up the wrong tree = to talk to someone about an issue who can\u00b4t be bothered e.g.: If you think I will [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3662,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions\/3662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}