"wild goose chase" meaning in All languages combined

See wild goose chase on Wiktionary

Noun [Anglais]

Audio: En-au-wild-goose chase.ogg Forms: wild goose chases [plural]
  1. Course-poursuite inutile. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: fr-wild_goose_chase-en-noun-dz--N2aG Categories (other): Métaphores en anglais, Wiktionnaire:Mots en anglais sans équivalent indiqué en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Inflected forms

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