You sent us down here on a wild-goose chase.
Even today, I can't talk to my sister without feeling acute embarrassment for sending her on a wild-goose chase.
They sent us on a diversionary chase and stole our vehicle.
"I didn't mean to send you on a wild-goose chase."
And I also sent them on a wild-goose chase.
Now, having sent the law on a chase which he hoped would bring luck, The Shadow made his own departure.
What do they mean, sending us on a mad chase like this?
"We need to send them on a wild-goose chase," Baal said.
If the new Fate queried it, she would be sent on a spurious chase.
She thought she'd been deliberately sent on a wild-goose chase.