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Select the idiom/phrase that most accurately and contextually replaces the bolded segment. The detective wasted weeks pursuing an incorrect lead because of a witness’s misleading statement.

A Adding fuel to the fire

B Playing his cards right

C Barking up the wrong tree

D Stealing someone’s thunder

E Making a mountain out of a molehill

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