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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each shopping trip is a wild goose chase .
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I thought, Don't know about a wild goose chase , this is a lame duck chase.
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Instead of that, he had become involved in what was most likely a wild goose chase .
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Looking around the room, Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase .
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On that occasion their predicament had been spotted and a boat had been sent out from Sharpness on a wild goose chase .
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Save yourself a wild goose chase round the shops.
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The photographs might represent a wild goose chase after the random neuroses of an insecure young woman.
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They deliberately sent me on a wild goose chase .