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wild-goose chase

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  1. wild-goose chasenoun

    the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable

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  1. Neama Rahmani:

    If they provided false information to law enforcement that let Brian laundry take off and get a week head start, or if the parents sent law enforcement on a wild goose chase, searching the preserve when he wasn't there, there's certainly a basis to charge them.

  2. Candice Cooley:

    We need a direction, evidence, something that’s not a wild goose chase, because it’s not good terrain out there, and it’s not for people who just leisurely just want to come out and search, [It’s] over 100 degrees, winds get blowing, and people don’t want you there.

  3. Nathaniel Hawthorne:

    Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.

  4. Benjamin Kuo:

    You don’t think that sitting behind a computer and looking at a picture and saying, ‘Oh, it looks like that might be where he is,’ would lead to a person being rescued, i was hoping I didn’t send them on a wild goose chase, and then they’d get mad at me.

  5. Miguel de Cervantes:

    Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase


Translations for wild-goose chase

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  • fruchtloses Unterfangen, ein sinnloses UnterfangenGerman
  • búsqueda inútilSpanish
  • تلاش بیهودهPersian
  • heinäsuova, etsiminen, neula, hukkareissuFinnish
  • מרדף שוואHebrew
  • [[szukać wiatru w poluPolish
  • goană de gâscă sălbaticăRomanian

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