List of antonyms from "wide-eyed" to antonyms from "wilderness/wilds"


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Definition of the day : « wild goose chase »

  • As in fruitless : adj bringing no advantage, product
  • As in red herring : noun misleading clue
  • As in search : noun seeking to find something
  • As in wild-goose chase : noun hopeless case
Example sentences :
  • Twas a wild goose chase, and I wot not what moved me to run after it.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • "It's a wild goose chase we're on," muttered his companion after a while.
  • Extract from : « Flamsted quarries » by Mary E. Waller
  • They may be worth a good deal before we get back from this wild goose chase.
  • Extract from : « Down the Slope » by James Otis
  • You are a fine one to send us off on a wild goose chase like that!
  • Extract from : « The Meadow-Brook Girls on the Tennis Courts » by Janet Aldridge
  • Were of the opinion it is all a wild goose chase so were staying here.
  • Extract from : « The Adventure Girls at K Bar O » by Clair Blank
  • He said there was no use of our going on a wild goose chase.
  • Extract from : « Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • Do you think it worth while to send me to Vicksburg on a wild goose chase?
  • Extract from : « The White Rose of Memphis » by William C. Falkner
  • Our hunt for buffaloes was proving to be a kind of wild goose chase.
  • Extract from : « Life and Adventures of 'Billy' Dixon » by Billy Dixon
  • I began to get the feeling that we were on a wild goose chase, after all.
  • Extract from : « Nor Iron Bars a Cage.... » by Gordon Randall Garrett
  • Now she told herself that it was certainly a wild goose chase.
  • Extract from : « The Shepherd of the North » by Richard Aumerle Maher