wild-goose chase (0 synonym found)

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Definition of wild-goose chase:

°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 book until I discovered it was out of print."
°A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
"Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools."
Definition of wild-goose chase:

°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 book until I discovered it was out of print."
°A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
"Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools."
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