Question

He cannot get that contract . It is a ' wild goose chase '. ( Meaning close to the idiom underlined )

• A. desperate
• B. useless effort
• C. baseless effort
• D. good effort

Answer 1

Answer:

B. useless effort

wild goose chase : a foolish and hopeless search for or pursuit of something unattainable. "physicists searching for the hypothetical particle may be on a wild goose chase"