plural of wild-goose chase

(idiomatic, informal) To spoil one's plans or hope of success.

A children's game in which one participant walks around a circle of others, designating each of them as a "duck" until selecting one as the "goose", who must then chase the selector.

The giant fulmar of the Pacific.

(chiefly in the negative) To have courage and be assertive.

Any of various traditional dishes of baked meat and vegetables, cheaper than genuine goose.

Dated form of say boo to a goose.

An Australian species of goose, Cereopsis novaehollandiae.

An anatid bird native to sub-Saharan Africa, Plectropterus gambensis.

Anser brachyrhynchus, that breeds in Greenland, Iceland, etc.