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Wild goose chase
A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
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A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.
"Diagnosing this software application's problems is a wild-goose chase because it is built in an environment that has poor debugging tools."
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