Brewer's: Wrong Sow by the Ear

(You have the). You have made a mistake in choice, come to the wrong shop or box; or misapprehended the subject. Pigs are caught by the ear. (See Sow.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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