| 单词 | wild goose chase |
| 释义 | wild goose chase also wild-goose chase Word forms: plural wild goose chases countable noun [usu on N] If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information. Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase. wild-goose chase in British Englishnoun an absurd or hopeless pursuit, as of something unattainable wild-goose chase in American English any search, pursuit, or endeavor regarded as being as futile as trying to catch a wild goose by chasing it Examples of 'wild-goose chase' in a sentence |
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