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a wild-goose chase発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
当ても無い企て - 斎藤和英大辞典
It was a wild goose chase.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
無駄足だったよ。 - Tanaka Corpus
It was a wild goose chase.例文帳に追加
無駄足だったよ。 - Tatoeba例文
to form a visionary scheme―lay a chimerical scheme 【イディオム・格言的には:】“go on a wild-goose chase.”発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
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Wiktionary英語版での「wild-goose chase」の意味 |
wild-goose chase
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/11/24 18:20 UTC 版)
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- wild goose chase
語源
Early recorded use refers to a type of 16th century horse race where everyone had to try to follow the erratic course of the lead horse, like wild geese have to follow their leader in formation. Mentioned in 1593 in the English poet Gervase Markham’s book about horsemanship. Also mentioned in the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, scene 4 by the character Mercutio: “Nay, if our wits run the wild-goose chase, I am done; for thou hast more of the wild goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five.” Mentioned in Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy (1621). Common use in the current may be the origin for the sport sense.
名詞
wild-goose chase (plural wild-goose chases) (idiomatic)
- (figuratively) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
- Synonyms: merry dance, exercise in futility, fool's errand, snipe hunt, snark hunt
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I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them.
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Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools.
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1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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From the beginning he has never concealed his belief that Professor Challenger is an absolute fraud, that we are all embarked upon an absurd wild-goose chase and that we are likely to reap nothing but disappointment and danger in South America, and corresponding ridicule in England.
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使用する際の注意点
- As wild-goose chase literally means a chase for wild geese, it is usually hyphenated as shown for clarity. The form without the hyphen is also commonly seen, and can be construed as a wild chase, not an inevitably fruitless one, after a possibly domesticated and flightless goose, rather than after a wild goose.
参照
- ^ Re: Wild-goose chase, archive of Phrasefinder.org
wild goose chase
名詞
wild goose chase (複数形 wild goose chases)
- Alternative spelling of wild-goose chase
- 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 230, 231, 232, 233:
- "I'm inquiring after a Miss Tomson, please. I don't know the number of her apartment."
"Nobody here called Tomson. Does she have a dog?"
"Goliath was his name."
"Well, you want Dizzy Darling. The model. But if she's who you're looking for she still ain't here. She's nearly gone two months. Just a minute I'll look here and see if I can find a forwarding address. Nope. Don't see a forwarding address. Sorry you come on a wild goose chase. Here, have a piece of chewing gum."
"Thank you."
「wild-goose chase」の部分一致の例文検索結果
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to form a visionary scheme―lay a chemical scheme 【イディオム・格言的には:】“go on a wild-goose chase.”発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
当ても無い企てをする - 斎藤和英大辞典
The false information made the police rush about to no purpose [led the police on a real wild‐goose chase].発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
警察はにせの情報にすっかり振り回された. - 研究社 新和英中辞典
Now I would just prefer her not to send the police on an egodriven wild goose chase.例文帳に追加
彼女には エゴに駆られた無駄な探索を 警察に指示して欲しくない - 映画・海外ドラマ英語字幕翻訳辞書
"I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase,"発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
「狙った獲物はガチョウ一羽だったということにならないよう願いたいですな」 - Arthur Conan Doyle『シャーロック・ホームズの冒険』
The patrol car pursued a speeding sports car but it all ended in a wild-goose chase.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
パトロール・カーは、違反のスピードを出して走っていたスポーツ・カーを追ったが、結局無駄だった。 - Tanaka Corpus
The patrol car pursued a speeding sports car, but it all ended in a wild-goose chase.例文帳に追加
パトロール・カーは、違反のスピードを出して走っていたスポーツ・カーを追ったが、結局無駄だった。 - Tatoeba例文
We all knew that Bob was on a wild-goose chase after Marge, because she was already happily engaged.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加
わたしたちは、ボッブがマージを追いかけても無駄であることを知っていた。なぜなら、マージはすでに婚約をしていたから。 - Tanaka Corpus
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