merry chase
Example Sentences
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She leads a biographer on a merry chase.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 2022
If N.C.A.A. gumshoes are dogging Devaney's footsteps, he is leading them a merry chase.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the way home, the sprightly quarry leads the hard-breathing hunter a merry chase through an amusement park; and before he can catch up with her, old age catches up with him.
From Time Magazine Archive
The police, of course, do not, and the buoyant banditry of skateboarding can lead the law a merry chase.
From Time Magazine Archive
The crowd surged out of the Grand Ballroom into the corridor, as Algernon, scampering along the maroon carpeted hallway, led them a merry chase.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
