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What is a wild goose chase?

What is a wild goose chase? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Alternative spelling of wild-goose chase
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When we arrived at the address, a highrise near Vancouver General Hospital, we realized it was a home for senior citizens and that we were probably on a wild goose chase.
Trying to find decent gifts whilst fighting pushy people and time constraints is like going on a wild goose chase.
And for me to drive into the city, to the Jerrold Morris Gallery on a wild goose chase, I had no idea, but I knew that I was driven to.
Sir, again, the people in those vehicles potentially were witnesses, and never in my mind would I classify a potential witness as a wild goose chase.
On each occasion to date, the search for the unholy grail has proved more of a wild goose chase.
Elliot said in a lecture in 1956 that he was sorry he sent so many people off on a wild goose chase for meanings that were not there.

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