I am simply afraid that this may be a wild-goose chase.
I still wasn't convinced this was anything other than a wild-goose chase.
He's on a wild-goose chase after them in some country over beyond the hills.
It would have been nice, though, to know we weren't on a wild-goose chase.
Or was she merely leading me on a wild-goose chase?
It was all a wild-goose chase, as he had feared from the beginning.
Very likely I've come down here on a wild-goose chase.
No, you couldn't waste Watch resources on a wild-goose chase like that.
Some of them, though, I'm sure, must have considered themselves upon a wild-goose chase.
"Then why go on some wild-goose chase after her - or him, as the case may be?"
The wild chase went down the hill in a rush.
This would most probably end as a wild goose chase.
In many ways, this book is really about a wild goose chase.
You never should have taken off on this wild goose chase.
Instead of that, he had become involved in what was most likely a wild goose chase.
He thought this whole thing was probably a wild goose chase, but it wouldn't be his first one.
It may be a wild goose chase, for all I know, but the chance is worth taking.
"Just what sort of a wild goose chase have you sent me on?"
"Both of us think that the other is on a wild goose chase."
"I still say this is all a wild goose chase."