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wild-goose chase
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Princeton's WordNet
wild-goose chasenoun
the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable
Wiktionary
wild-goose chasenoun
A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit.
wild-goose chasenoun
A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
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wild-goose chase
A wild-goose chase refers to a pointless and often long, frustrating quest, task or hunt for something that is either impossible to find or does not exist. This term often refers to activities that involve considerable effort but with little chance of success.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wild-goose chase in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wild-goose chase in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of wild-goose chase in a Sentence
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained.
If they provided false information to law enforcement that let Brian laundry take off and get a week head start, or if the parents sent law enforcement on a wild goose chase, searching the preserve when he wasn't there, there's certainly a basis to charge them.
We need a direction, evidence, something that’s not a wild goose chase, because it’s not good terrain out there, and it’s not for people who just leisurely just want to come out and search, [It’s] over 100 degrees, winds get blowing, and people don’t want you there.
You don’t think that sitting behind a computer and looking at a picture and saying, ‘Oh, it looks like that might be where he is,’ would lead to a person being rescued, i was hoping I didn’t send them on a wild goose chase, and then they’d get mad at me.
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