It is a idiom.
After hours of struggling through the dense jungle, on what was turning out to be a fruitless search for the lost city, I rather began to suspect that I'd been sent on a wild goose chase.
Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase was created in 1982.
The Wild Goose Chase - film - was created on 1915-05-27.
The Wild Goose Chase - 1915 was released on: USA: 27 May 1915
The Wild Goose Chase - 1932 was released on: USA: 12 August 1932
Go on a wild goose chase!
A "wild goose chase" is a figurative expression relating to the pursuit of something you likely cannot or did not realize. A fruitless pursuit of something that is unattainable
ana is a foolish person
Dirty Jobs - 2005 Wild Goose Chase 3-17 was released on: USA: 28 August 2007 Australia: 16 July 2008
He probably did not originate the term, as it must have started as a game, like a greased pig chase. Shakespeare did however use the phrase in Romeo and Juliet, which would have popularized it. Mercutio says: Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have done, for thou hast more of the wild-goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five: was I with you there for the goose?
Meowiarty is on the top of Big Ben in Marleybone. Before that, your on a wild goose chase trying to capture him when he escapes from Newgate Prison.
The cry of a wild goose is a 'Honk'