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send on a wild goose chase
vs
take for a ride
send on a wild goose chase
take for a ride
verb
To drive (a person) to a remote location in order to murder them.
To deceive someone.
How often have the words
send on a wild goose chase
and
take for a ride
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)