🪿 Goose
"Wild goose chase"
Meaning
A long and useless search for something that is hard or impossible to find.
About the goose
Geese honk loudly and appear in stories about unexpected windfalls, which is why their idioms cover foolish behavior and sudden luck.
Example sentence
We spent an hour looking for Dad's glasses, but it was a wild goose chase because they were on his head.
Test yourself
Which idiom means...
A long and useless search for something that is hard or impossible to find.
More goose idioms
GooseIdiom
"Wild goose chase"
A long and useless search for something that is hard or impossible to find.
GooseIdiom
"Kill the goose that lays the golden eggs"
To destroy something valuable by being greedy.
GooseIdiom
"Your goose is cooked"
You are in serious trouble or your plan has failed.
GooseIdiom
"Cook someone's goose"
To ruin someone's plans or chances.
GooseIdiom
"Wild goose chase"
A long and useless search.