Yasuo Uchidaの "The Togakushi Legend Murders" を読んでいます。
Taki and Keiichi seemed to have kept the police on wild goose chases to the very end. Since Keiichi had abandoned his station wagon at Upper Kusugawa, the police had assumed that he and Taki must be headed for the vicinity on Maple's Cave, and therefore had confined their search to that area.
"wild goose chases" は比ゆ的な表現ですが、具体的にはどんな意味なのでしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a search for something that is impossible for you to find or that does not exist, that makes you waste a lot of time: The police had been sent on a wild goose chase.:
・Collins Dictionary: If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information.: Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a search that is completely unsuccessful and a waste of time because the person or thing being searched for does not exist or is somewhere else: After two hours spent wandering in the snow, I realized we were on a wild goose chase.
面白い表現ですね。"wild goose chases" を読み飛ばすところでした。
Taki and Keiichi seemed to have kept the police on wild goose chases to the very end. Since Keiichi had abandoned his station wagon at Upper Kusugawa, the police had assumed that he and Taki must be headed for the vicinity on Maple's Cave, and therefore had confined their search to that area.
"wild goose chases" は比ゆ的な表現ですが、具体的にはどんな意味なのでしょうか？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a search for something that is impossible for you to find or that does not exist, that makes you waste a lot of time: The police had been sent on a wild goose chase.:
・Collins Dictionary: If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information.: Harry wondered if Potts had deliberately sent him on a wild goose chase.
・Cambridge English Dictionary: a search that is completely unsuccessful and a waste of time because the person or thing being searched for does not exist or is somewhere else: After two hours spent wandering in the snow, I realized we were on a wild goose chase.
面白い表現ですね。"wild goose chases" を読み飛ばすところでした。
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