wild goose

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any of many species of wildlife goose, such as the greylag goose or the Canada goose, whose wedge fly in a wedge or V form, or cuneiform, as opposed to the domesticated goose that would not fly
Any of numerous species of undomesticated geese, as the Canada goose and the graylag
type of feral bird
wild goose chase
Alternative spelling of wild-goose chase
wild goose chases
plural form of wild goose chase
wild goose chase
(deyim) A waste of time, a long chase without result
wild goose chase
(deyim) 1. (figuratively) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit.2. A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome

1. I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them. 2. Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging.

wild goose chase
pursuit of something which is extremely unlikely to be attained, searching in vain
wild goose chase
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. a situation where you are looking for something that does not exist or that you are very unlikely to find, so that you waste a lot of time
wild-goose chase
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.

wild-goose chase
A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome

Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools.

wild-goose chases
plural form of wild-goose chase
wild-goose chase
the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable
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