merry chase

Robbins wrote in his scenario: “She pretends to be angry with them, and annoyed, but both she and they know she isn’t. She actually enjoys the attention very much, and with subtlety leads them a merry chase.”

She leads a biographer on a merry chase.

The cops allowed them to get inside their vehicle; a merry chase ensued, ending a short while later as Speedy was able to get away on foot.

Or Paddington, in merry chase?

“If he chooses not to lead us on a merry chase through the rhetorical brambles, but to be fairly straightforward on engaging the U.S. . . . we might see a bit of traction soon,” says one prominent Korea watcher of Kim’s speech next Tuesday.