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wild goose chase
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
wild goose chase noun
plural wild goose chases
wild goose chase
noun
plural wild goose chases
Learner's definition of WILD GOOSE CHASE
[count]
: a difficult and long search for something that is not important or that cannot be found徒劳的搜寻
- The boss sent me on a wild goose chase that wasted half the day.老板派我去进行徒劳的调查，结果只是浪费了半天的时间。
See also: wild-goose chase
wild-goose chase
noun
variants or wild goose chase
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The idea is to avoid sending patients on a wild-goose chase, since many pharmacies received only 20 Paxlovid treatment courses. 
New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022 Thyroid disease can also cause hair loss, so the misdiagnosis can send doctors on a wild-goose chase. Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2021 Then, following that wild-goose chase of a paragraph, Amis presents us with a footnote—and another hundred words on etymology. Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020 Jagasia was 99 percent certain that this was a wild-goose chase. Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020 Victims of torture will lie, frequently and often, to make pain stop, or as in the case of some of the 9/11 mastermins, to send analysts off on wild-goose chases. al, 10 Feb. 2020 Likes: Leading millions of minions on a wild-goose chase to a fabled heaven. Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019 There are wild-goose chases, setbacks, secrets, bombings. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019 That year, a man walked into a bank with a bomb locked onto his neck; the F.B.I. was led on a wild-goose chase by the conspirators in order to remove it. New York Times, 11 May 2018 See More
New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022 Thyroid disease can also cause hair loss, so the misdiagnosis can send doctors on a wild-goose chase. Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2021 Then, following that wild-goose chase of a paragraph, Amis presents us with a footnote—and another hundred words on etymology. Leo Robson, Harper's Magazine, 27 Oct. 2020 Jagasia was 99 percent certain that this was a wild-goose chase. Lisa Sanders, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020 Victims of torture will lie, frequently and often, to make pain stop, or as in the case of some of the 9/11 mastermins, to send analysts off on wild-goose chases. al, 10 Feb. 2020 Likes: Leading millions of minions on a wild-goose chase to a fabled heaven. Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019 There are wild-goose chases, setbacks, secrets, bombings. Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 13 June 2019 That year, a man walked into a bank with a bomb locked onto his neck; the F.B.I. was led on a wild-goose chase by the conspirators in order to remove it. New York Times, 11 May 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
circa 1595, in the meaning defined above
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