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wild goose chaseˌwild ˈgoose ˌchase noun [countable]   - Each shopping trip is a wild goose chase.
- I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase, this is a lame duck chase.
- Instead of that, he had become involved in what was most likely a wild goose chase.
- Looking around the room, Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase.
- On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase.
- Save yourself a wild goose chase round the shops.
- The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman.
- They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase.
an attempt to find something or someone► search an attempt to find someone or something, especially when this is well organized and a lot of people are doing it: search for: · Rescuers are continuing their search for survivors of the crash.· Their search for gold took them west to Washington State.carry out a search (=do a search): · FBI agents carried out a search of all the nightclubs in the area.search party (=an organized group of people searching for someone who is lost): · When the men did not return, the commanding officer sent out a search party.house-to-house search (=when every house in an area is searched): · Police are carrying out house-to-house searches in villages near the scene of the murder. ► hunt an organized search by a lot of people, especially to find a criminal: · Police have launched a nationwide hunt for the killer. ► raid a sudden visit by the police to a building in order to look for criminals, drugs, stolen goods etc: · Raids are almost a nightly occurrence at this club.raid on: · Seven people were injured in last night's police raid on a house in Brixton, South London. ► wild goose chase a search that is a waste of time and effort, either because the thing you are looking for does not exist or you have been given wrong information: · I had a feeling that the trip up to Edinburgh might turn out to be a wild goose chase.send/take somebody on a wild goose chase: · He lied and took us on a wild goose chase to North Yorkshire. a situation where you are looking for something that does not exist or that you are very unlikely to find, so that you waste a lot of time:  It looks like they’ve sent us on a wild goose chase. |