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慣用語主題: 動物

a wild goose chase

/ə ˌwaɪld ˈɡuːs tʃeɪs/INFORMAL · C1

中文對應近似對應

徒勞無功

字面意思: «追野鵝»

意思

a pointless search that cannot succeed

註定徒勞的尋找.

例句

1An outdated address sent the delivery driver on a wild goose chase.
2Looking for tickets to the cancelled concert turned into a wild goose chase.
3The search for that missing page was a wild goose chase; the book never had one.
4Tracking down a shop that never existed proved a wild goose chase.
5Thanks to an invented reference number, finding the parcel became a wild goose chase.

文法

可數：a wild goose chase。常用在 send someone on 或 turn into 之後；goose 保持單數。

意思相近

bark up the wrong tree a red herring

「動物」主題的更多慣用語

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the lion's share最大的一部分 smell a rat覺得有欺騙或不對勁的地方 a one-trick pony只會一樣本事的人或東西 let the cat out of the bag洩露秘密，常是無意的 the elephant in the room人人迴避的明顯問題 an early bird起得早或比別人先行動的人

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