wild-goose chase

He considered leading me off on some wild-goose chase.

One of the cinematic highlights of the 2024 New York International Children’s Film Festival could be described, at least partly, as a wild-goose chase.

At least the Victorians were just sending their friends on a wild-goose chase to be funny, and not actively poisoning them.

At one point, he lodged hairs he found in a bus station restroom between the layers of electrical tape on a bomb’s wire connections, hoping to initiate a genetic wild-goose chase.

Capitol and twist it into a wild-goose chase driven by ludicrous allegations that the FBI was behind the whole thing.