The Wild Goose Chase

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• The Wild Goose Chase — is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, first published in 1652. It is often classed among Fletcher s most effective and best constructed plays; Edmund Gosse called it one of the brightest and most coherent of Fletcher s …   Wikipedia

• The Wild Goose Chase (film) — Infobox Film name = The Wild Goose Chase image size = caption = director = Cecil B. DeMille producer = Cecil B. DeMille writer = William C. de Mille narrator = starring = Ina Claire music = cinematography = Alvin Wyckoff editing = Cecil B.… …   Wikipedia

• Wild goose chase — Wild Wild, a. [Compar. {Wilder}; superl. {Wildest}.] [OE. wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG. wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild game, deer; of… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• wild goose chase — 1592, first attested in Romeo and Juliet, where it evidently is a figurative use of an earlier (but unrecorded) literal sense in reference to a kind of follow the leader steeplechase …   Etymology dictionary

• wild-goose chase — noun the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable • Hypernyms: ↑pursuit, ↑pursuance, ↑quest * * * noun Etymology: so called from the characteristic flight of wild geese in a group spaced at intervals behind a leader that sets the course 1.… …   Useful english dictionary

• wild goose chase —    A wild goose chase is a waste of time time spent trying to do something unsuccessfully.   (Dorking School Dictionary)    ***    If someone is sent on a wild goose chase, they waste their time looking for something that there is little chance… …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• wild-goose chase — noun a) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit. I went on a wild goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them. b) A task whose execution is inordinately… …   Wiktionary

• wild goose chase — absurd or hopeless search He led them all on a wild goose chase when he told them about the sale at the computer store …   Idioms and examples

• wild goose chase — noun, pl ⋯ chases [count] : a difficult and long search for something that is not important or that cannot be found The boss sent me on a wild goose chase that wasted half the day …   Useful english dictionary

• A wild goose chase — Goose Goose (g[=oo]s), n.; pl. {Geese} (g[=e]s). [OE. gos, AS. g[=o]s, pl. g[=e]s; akin to D. & G. gans, Icel. g[=a]s, Dan. gaas, Sw. g[*a]s, Russ. guse. OIr. geiss, L. anser, for hanser, Gr. chh n, Skr. ha[.m]sa. [root]233. Cf. {Gander},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English