[post_page_title]”Wild goose chase”[/post_page_title]
To metaphorically go on a wild goose chase is to pursue something that is difficult to obtain or trivial. The idiom is believed to have originated from a kind of horse racing from the 16th century, in which the lead rider was chased by the other riders, not so different from the way geese fly in formation.
The exact rules and details of this race are vague, but the phrase was first used allegorically by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet in 1595.
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