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7 Wild goose chase comes from which play?

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In "Romeo and Juliet," Shakespeare uses the phrase to refer specifically to an erratic course taken by one person and followed by another. Later Samuel Johnson defined the phrase in his dictionary as "a pursuit of something as unlikely to be caught as a wild goose." So, over time the phrase has come to describe any fruitless pursuit.

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