chase : Idioms & Phrases


A wild goose chase

  • an attempt to accomplish something impossible or unlikely of attainment.
Webster 1913

chase after

  • verb pursue someone sexually or romantically
    chase.
  • verb go after with the intent to catch
    go after; chase after; track; dog; trail; tail; tag; chase.
    • The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
    • the dog chased the rabbit
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chase away

  • verb force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings
    turn back; drive out; dispel; drive away; drive off; run off.
    • Drive away potential burglars
    • drive away bad thoughts
    • dispel doubts
    • The supermarket had to turn back many disappointed customers
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Chase gun

  • (Naut.), a cannon placed at the bow or stern of an armed vessel, and used when pursuing an enemy, or in defending the vessel when pursued.
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Chase port

  • (Naut.), a porthole from which a chase gun is fired.
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Flat chasing

  • in fine art metal working, a mode of ornamenting silverware, etc., producing figures by dots and lines made with a punching tool. Knight.
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frank-chase

Frank"-chase` noun
Etymology
Frank free + chase.
Definitions
  1. (Eng. Law) The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. Burrill.
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give chase

  • verb go after with the intent to catch
    go after; chase after; track; dog; trail; tail; tag; chase.
    • The policeman chased the mugger down the alley
    • the dog chased the rabbit
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paper chase

  • noun an outdoor game; one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot
    hare and hounds.
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salmon p. chase

  • noun United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)
    Salmon P. Chase; Chase.
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salmon portland chase

  • noun United States politician and jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1808-1873)
    Salmon P. Chase; Chase.
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Steeple chase

  • a race across country between a number of horsemen, to see which can first reach some distant object, as a church steeple; hence, a race over a prescribed course obstructed by such obstacles as one meets in riding across country, as hedges, walls, etc.
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Stern chase

  • (Naut.), a chase in which the pursuing vessel follows directly in the wake of the vessel pursued.
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To give chase

  • to pursue.
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Wild goose chase

  • the pursuit of something unattainable, or of something as unlikely to be caught as the wild goose. Shak.
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wild-goose chase

  • noun the fruitless pursuit of something unattainable
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