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divert
vs
send on a wild-goose chase
divert
verb
To turn aside from a course.
To distract.
To entertain or amuse (by diverting the attention)
send on a wild-goose chase
How often have the words
divert
and
send on a wild-goose chase
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)