Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - wild goose chase
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Wild goose chase
wild goose chase
also wild-goose chase (wild goose chases) 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. N-COUNT: usu on N
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1.
noun Date: circa 1595 a complicated or lengthy and usually fruitless pursuit or search ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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~ n 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 ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
3.
{n. phr.} An absurd and completely futile errand. * /I was on a wild goose chase when I was sent to find a man who never really existed./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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