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- fool's errand
- lost cause
- red herring
wild-goose chase 的定义
- a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
- any senseless pursuit of an object or end; a hopeless enterprise: Her scheme of being a movie star is a wild-goose chase.
wild-goose chase 近义词
hopeless case
更多wild-goose chase例句
- He has wild swings between trying not to care about Lana and the baby, and being completely obsessed by it.
- One of the other cops fired three times and those who were still able to give chase did.
- The cops gave chase and the gunman fired the big revolver twice more.
- The sound of birds, quail, even doe, make a wild grid of noise.
- Exactly when the transition to modern domestic creature took place, for a bird that is wild to this day, is controversial.
- They are so rich in harmony, so weird, so wild, that when you hear them you are like a sea-weed cast upon the bosom of the ocean.
- For a moment Joe stood behind her, silently, looking over her shoulder at the signature of Isom Chase.
- The white men served their smoking cannon with a wild energy that, for a time, made the gallant nine equal to a thousand.
- A cricket-match was in progress, but the bowling and batting were extremely wild, thanks to The Warren strong beer.
- People are busy ballooning or driving; shooting like stars along railroads; or migrating like swallows or wild-geese.