boşa kürek çekme

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wild goose chase
Alternative spelling of wild-goose chase
(deyim) A waste of time, a long chase without result
(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.

pursuit of something which is extremely unlikely to be attained, searching in vain
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

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boşa kürek çekmek
(deyim) flog a dead horse
boşa kürek çekmek
keep beating the dead horse
boşa kürek çekmek
talk in circles
boşa kürek çekmek
run in circles
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