Wild+goose
11wild-goose chase — wild goose ,chase noun count an attempt to find something that does not exist or that you are very unlikely to discover …
12wild goose chase — 1592, first attested in Romeo and Juliet, where it evidently is a figurative use of an earlier (but unrecorded) literal sense in reference to a kind of follow the leader steeplechase …
13wild goose chase — ► NOUN ▪ a foolish and hopeless search for or pursuit of something unattainable …
14wild-goose chase — noun the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable • Hypernyms: ↑pursuit, ↑pursuance, ↑quest * * * noun Etymology: so called from the characteristic flight of wild geese in a group spaced at intervals behind a leader that sets the course 1.… …
15wild goose chase — A wild goose chase is a waste of time time spent trying to do something unsuccessfully. (Dorking School Dictionary) *** If someone is sent on a wild goose chase, they waste their time looking for something that there is little chance… …
16wild-goose chase — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms wild goose chase : singular wild goose chase plural wild goose chases an attempt to find something that does not exist or that you are very unlikely to discover …
17wild-goose chase — /wuyld goohs / 1. a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild goose chase looking for a building long demolished. 2. any senseless pursuit of an object or end; a hopeless enterprise: Her scheme of being a movie star… …
18Wild goose chase — A wild goose chase can mean:*, a lengthy or useless pursuit or task whose execution requires inordinate resources and circuitous execution. *Snipe hunt where someone is hazed by deliberately being sent on a wild goose chase or other ridiculous… …
19wild-goose chase — noun a) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit. I went on a wild goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them. b) A task whose execution is inordinately… …
20wild-goose plum — noun 1. : either of two wild plums (Prunus hortulana and P. munsoniana) of the central and south central United States that have reddish to yellow fruits and have given rise to several cultivated plums 2. : any of various cultivated plums that… …
