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Meaning of wild-goose chase in English

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  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

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  1. Noun

    wild-goose chase

    Definitions

    1. the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable

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  • « Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it. »
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

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