wild-goose chase

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   the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable

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Questions about wild-goose chase

What does wild-goose chase mean?

wild-goose chase means "the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable".

Is wild-goose chase a common word?

wild-goose chase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.