boşa kürek çekme

Türkisch - Englisch

Definition von boşa kürek çekme im Türkisch Englisch wörterbuch

wild goose chase

Alternative spelling of wild-goose chase

(deyim) A waste of time, a long chase without result

(deyim) 1. (figuratively) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy pursuit.2. A task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome

1. I went on a wild-goose chase all over the town looking for that adapter until I discovered they no longer make them. 2. Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging.

pursuit of something which is extremely unlikely to be attained, searching in vain

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. a situation where you are looking for something that does not exist or that you are very unlikely to find, so that you waste a lot of time

Relevante Übersetzungen

boşa kürek çekmek

(deyim) flog a dead horse

boşa kürek çekmek

keep beating the dead horse

boşa kürek çekmek

talk in circles

boşa kürek çekmek

run in circles

Silbentrennung

bo·şa kü·rek çek·me