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wild-goose chase |
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a wild-goose chase a situation where you waste time looking for something that you are not going to find, either because that thing does not exist or because you have been given wrong information about it. After two hours spent wandering in the snow, I realised we were on a wild-goose chase. When I found out that there was no Anita Hill at the university, I began to suspect that I had been sent on a wild-goose chase. See also: chase |
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I think, young lady, if you will allow me to say so that you are making a needless mystery of the matter, and further, that you are embarking upon what will certainly prove to be a wild-goose chase. On the instant a score of the men who had declined to accompany him on the wild-goose chase were crowding about him with proffered gold-sacks. From the beginning he has never concealed his belief that Professor Challenger is an absolute fraud, that we are all embarked upon an absurd wild-goose chase and that we are likely to reap nothing but disappointment and danger in South America, and corresponding ridicule in England. |
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