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Idiom: Wild goose chase
Off the bat, you may be wondering what going on a wild goose chase has to do with Christmas.
Well, there’s no direct connection, really, except the fact that traditionally, the British ate goose, peacock, or a pig’s head at Christmas – not turkey.
Turkey is native to North America, so the Brits didn’t have it until the early 1500s after it was ‘discovered.’
With that little bit of history out of the way, we can get to our idiom for the day – go on a wild goose chase.
If you send someone on a wild goose chase, you cause them to search for or pursue something, but they will have no success.
Every Christmas, there is one toy that is extremely hard to get.
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Parents run all over the city trying to purchase this toy for their kids before it’s sold out.
Many parents who shop early are successful.
Unfortunately, countless others find themselves on a wild goose chase.
This year’s must-have toy is the plush baby Yoda from the movie ‘The Mandalorian.’
This toy was designed to be a hit.
It has all the hallmarks of a cute thing.
If you don’t know what they are, you should take the lesson I created in May of 2019 titled ‘You’re so cute.’
The articles talk about all the features humans find irresistibly cute.
Anyways, although the pandemic may limit the amount of running around parents do, you can be sure many Internet searches will end up becoming nothing but exercises in futility or, to use today’s idiom – wild goose chases this year.
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