snipe hunt , auch: snipe hunting AmE informal

And I'm not going down to the station to wait around like a boy playing snipe hunt.

I had driven across the country on a snipe hunt.

And on it went, a snipe hunt around the downtown bar scene.

A snipe hunt is a joke on somebody, most likely some city cousin.

The idea is very similar to the "snipe hunt."

Were he and Helen really just on some kind of self-inflicted snipe hunt?

He wanted to continue on this snipe hunt, and I think we ought to turn around and go home.

A local newspaper called the affair a "snipe hunt" and canard.

Are you sure the Ryxx are in on this snipe hunt?

Ellen Mae sent you on a snipe hunt, dude.

And I've got to be up there behind the bar when that merry mob you've been leading comes in from this latest snipe hunt.

Tracking the average American is the snipe hunt of American politics.

But at one camp, when Robin was feeling particularly bored, she took Chris on a snipe hunt.

"Going on a snipe hunt" is a phrase suggesting a fool's errand, or an impossible task.

Snipe Hunt, it had been called.

A snipe hunt is a specific type of "wild-goose chase", where a person embarks on an impossible search.

Where a wild-goose chase may be accidental, a snipe hunt is always initiated by a second person, as a prank.

A snipe hunt is such a prank, when a newcomer or credulous person is given an impossible task.

Harry remembered the old game of "snipe hunt" where dupes are left in the woods by those who perpetrate the hoax.

Snipe hunt (a fool's errand or wild goose chase)

In the early 1960s, front-wheel-drive cars were new and asking a car mechanic to repair a Mini's rear differential was a popular snipe hunt.

It's another snipe hunt.

If it was a hoax, maybe I could pass it on to another fisherman, a sort of Everglades-style snipe hunt.

It fed into his mounting conviction that he was on a snipe hunt, while the real action was happening out at sea, with the carrier group.