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Is there a good reason why the followings are not listed:

To cramp by style
To bark at the wrong tree

Are they so rarely used?
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I don't know 'cramp by style'; I'll look into it. We do have the bark idiom- http://www.usingenglish.com/referenc...rong+tree.html. We generally skip words like 'to' at the beiginning as it can be used in many forms. You can search the list by keyword.
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Surely that should be "Cramp my style"?
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Is there a good reason why the followings are not listed:
To cramp by style
To bark at the wrong tree
Are they so rarely used?
More often: "bark up the wrong tree" which means to blame the wrong person
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