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Что (кто) такое wild goose chase - определение

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Wild goose; Wild Goose (disambiguation)

wild-goose chase         
Foolish pursuit, foolish enterprise, wool-gathering.
wild goose chase         
¦ noun a foolish and hopeless search for or pursuit of something unattainable.
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.
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Википедия

Wild Goose

Wild Goose may refer to:

  • Non-domesticated goose
  • Wild Goose, Ontario, a community of the township of Shuniah, Ontario, Canada
  • Wild Goose (beer), a brand of beer of the Logan Shaw Brewing Company
  • Greylag goose, or wild goose
  • The Wild Goose, a hand-written newspaper created in 1867 by Fenian prisoners
  • HMS Wild Goose (U45), a 1942 Royal Navy Black Swan-class sloop
  • USS Wild Goose (SP-562), a US Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1920
  • USS YMS-328, later Wild Goose, a US Navy minesweeper converted to a yacht, once owned by John Wayne
  • The Wild Goose (film), a 1921 American film directed by Albert Capellani
  • The Cry of the Wild Goose, a 1950 popular song performed by Frankie Laine
Примеры употребления для wild goose chase
1. Another red herring/wild goose chase. – Lucy, Suffolk Of course.
2. On one side the mysterious abductor and the wild goose chase sitings.
3. "It got the entire financial bureaucracy started on a wild–goose chase," Warde said.
4. "ŹSending patients on a wild goose chase isnђt going to help an already overworked service.
5. Rohati wasn‘t in when we arrived, and it seemed the search for her was turning into a wild goose chase.