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单词 wild goose chase
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wild goose chasen.

Brit. /ˌwʌɪl(d) ˈɡuːs tʃeɪs/, U.S. /ˌwaɪl(d) ˈɡus ˌtʃeɪs/
1. A kind of horse race or sport in which the second or any succeeding horse had to follow accurately the course of the leader (at a definite interval), like a flight of wild geese. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
bell-course1607
Palio1673
stake1696
paddock course1705
handicap1751
by-match1759
pony race1765
give and take plate1769
sweepstake1773
steeplechase1793
mile-heat1802
steeple race1809
welter1820
trotting-race1822
scurry1824
walkover1829
steeple hunt1831
set-to1840
sky race1840
flat race1848
trot1856
grind1857
feeler1858
nursery1860
waiting race1868
horse-trot1882
selling plate1888
flying milea1893
chase1894
flying handicap1894
prep1894
selling race1898
point-to-point1902
seller1922
shoo-in1928
daily double1930
bumper1946
selling chase1965
tiercé1981
1597 [see sense 2].
1602 N. Breton Mothers Blessing sig. B4 Esteeme a horse, according to his pace, But loose no wagers on a wilde goose chase.
1604 H. Spurway in Trevelyan Papers (Camden) 60 The King hath beene latelye at Royston, at a wilgosse chase.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iv. 342 Horse-races, wilde-goose chases, which are the disports of greater men.
1697 N. Cox Gentleman's Recreation (ed. 4) v. vii. 65 Others choose to hunt the Hare..and then to run these Wild-goose Chase.
2. figurative. An erratic course taken or led by one person (or thing) and followed (or that may be followed) by another (or taken by a person in following his own inclinations or impulses); in later use (the origin being forgotten) apprehended as ‘a pursuit of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose’ (Johnson); a foolish, fruitless, or hopeless quest.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > uselessness, vanity, or futility > [noun] > a profitless undertaking
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
fool's erranda1629
job1680
water haul1823
rainbow chase1840
Sisyphism1846
blind alley1854
fool's gold1870
mug's game1900
Saltash luck1914
dead end1922
boondoggle1947
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > capriciousness > a caprice or whim > capricious action
conceitc1520
giddiness1593
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
tricka1616
vagary1711
cantrip1719
quipa1822
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 66 Nay if thy wits runne the wildgoose chase, I haue done: for I am sure thou hast more of the goose in one of thy wits, than I haue in al my fiue.
a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) i. sig. C I have had a fine fegary, The rarest,Wild-goose chase.
1646 G. Daniel Addr. in Poems 48 We pursue A Wild-goose-Chase, to what none ever knew.
1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 202 No hints of truth on foot? no sparks of grace? No late sprung light? to dance the wild-goose chase?
1662 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1920) Apr. 257 If you cannot reason him to what may bee for his good..let him goe the wild goosechase.
1673 B. Makin Ess. to revive Antient Educ. Gentlewomen 37 If we should dance that wild-Goose-chase usually led, it would require longer time.
1754 H. Walpole Corr. 20 Nov. (1973) XXXV. 192 Don't let me think, that if you return, you will set out upon every wild-goose chase, sticking to nothing.
1876 F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow xii His journey to London on such slender encouragement is a wild-goose chase!
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay vii. 110 ‘I see you have found nothing,’ exclaimed Lady Gethin... ‘It was a wild goose chase,’ he replied with a weary look.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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