wild-goose chase
Pluralwild-goose chases
- 1A long, hard search or task that turns out to be useless.
The fake map sent us on a wild-goose chase around the park.
Looking for my old phone charger was a wild-goose chase.
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Origin
It first named a kind of horse race in the 1500s, in which riders had to follow the leading horse wherever it went, like wild geese following their leader.