Quotes About Wild-goose

It might be a wild-goose chase." "I am quite fond of geese, myself," Mikhail said.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

That's what he got for neglecting his work to go on wild-goose chases to impress a girl