WILD GOOSE CHASE


Meaning of WILD GOOSE CHASE in English

ˌwild ˈgoose ˌchase BrE AmE noun [countable]

a situation where you are looking for something that does not exist or that you are very unlikely to find, so that you waste a lot of time:

It looks like they’ve sent us on a wild goose chase.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.