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wild-goose chases
n. (wild-goose chase English)
Usage examples of "wild-goose chases".
None have proved to be anything other than wild-goose chases, as you so colorfully put it.
But you gotta understand this: I do needles in haystacks, I don't do wild-goose chases.
That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl.
Did Papa ever go away on wild-goose chases and leave you at home just wondering?
In my time I'd been on wild-goose chases of my own, but to whomp up a honey, I told myself, it took a female big game hunter and a dreaming blind man and a sneaky little religico with dirty fingernails.
To anyone who did not know Garrison, following up a dream in this crazy fashion must seem the very epitome of all wild-goose chases.