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1The Wild Goose Chase — is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, first published in 1652. It is often classed among Fletcher s most effective and best constructed plays; Edmund Gosse called it one of the brightest and most coherent of Fletcher s …
2The Wild Goose Chase — est une comédie dramatique américaine réalisée par Cecil B. DeMille, sorti en 1915. Ce film est considéré comme un Film perdu. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Fiche technique 3 Distribution …
3The Wild Goose Chase (film) — Infobox Film name = The Wild Goose Chase image size = caption = director = Cecil B. DeMille producer = Cecil B. DeMille writer = William C. de Mille narrator = starring = Ina Claire music = cinematography = Alvin Wyckoff editing = Cecil B.… …
4Wild goose chase — Wild Wild, a. [Compar. {Wilder}; superl. {Wildest}.] [OE. wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG. wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild game, deer; of… …
5Wild goose — Wild Wild, a. [Compar. {Wilder}; superl. {Wildest}.] [OE. wilde, AS. wilde; akin to OFries. wilde, D. wild, OS. & OHG. wildi, G. wild, Sw. & Dan. vild, Icel. villr wild, bewildered, astray, Goth. wilpeis wild, and G. & OHG. wild game, deer; of… …
6Wild Goose (disambiguation) — Wild Goose can mean the following: *the pre Linnean name for the Greylag Goose ( anser ferus ) * The Wild Goose , a newspaper penned aboard the last convict ship to Australia *the British Royal Navy sloop HMS Wild Goose (U45) *the song De Wild… …
7wild-goose chase — noun the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable • Hypernyms: ↑pursuit, ↑pursuance, ↑quest * * * noun Etymology: so called from the characteristic flight of wild geese in a group spaced at intervals behind a leader that sets the course 1.… …
8wild goose chase — 1592, first attested in Romeo and Juliet, where it evidently is a figurative use of an earlier (but unrecorded) literal sense in reference to a kind of follow the leader steeplechase …
9wild goose chase — A wild goose chase is a waste of time time spent trying to do something unsuccessfully. (Dorking School Dictionary) *** If someone is sent on a wild goose chase, they waste their time looking for something that there is little chance… …
10wild-goose chase — noun a) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit. I went on a wild goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them. b) A task whose execution is inordinately… …
