Synonyms for wild-goose chase
wild-goose chase

Princeton's WordNet

1. wild-goose chasenoun

   the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable

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1. • Pursuit

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1. Miguel de Cervantes:

   Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase

2. 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.

3. 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.

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. 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.