N-COUNT [usu onN](根据错误信息进行的)徒劳寻找,白费力气的追逐 If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information. (根据错误信息进行的)徒劳寻找,白费力气的追逐
Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase.
N-COUNT (根据错误信息进行的)白费力气的寻找If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information. (根据错误信息进行的)白费力气的寻找
Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase.