a search for sth that is impossible for you to find or that does not exist, that makes you waste a lot of time:
The police had been sent on a wild goose chase.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for wild goose chase is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is wild goose chase a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, wild goose chase is tagged as noun.
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Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
