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Definition: A WILD GOOSE CHASE |
A WILD GOOSE CHASE1. An attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unskillfulness | Cut blocks with a razor; hold a farthing candle to the sun; (useless); fight with a shadow, grasp at a shadow; catch at straws, lean on a broken reed, reckon without one's host, pursue a wild goose chase; go on a fool's goose chase, sleeveless errand; go further and fare worse; lose one's way, miss one's way; fail. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Who should you bring on a wild goose chase but a goose? (Balto; writing credit: David Cohen; Elana Lesser) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Wild Goose Chase (1919) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expressions using "A WILD GOOSE CHASE": go on a wild goose chase ♦ send off on a wild goose chase. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "A WILD GOOSE CHASE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | courir partout comme fou (send off on a wild goose chase). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aay ildway oosegay asechay.(various references) | |
Romanian | umbla dupã potcoave de cai morţi (go on a wild goose chase). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-g-h-i-l-o-o-s-s-w" | |
-5 letters: algaecides, logaoedics. | |
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