"Old Saying Spends Day Going and There " by Susan Pearl

"It was like going on a wild goose chase".

In my opinion this old saying is referring to the times when we start out our day thinking we can find what we want at a certain place but it is not there.  So then we go to another place and it is not there either.  Then we are told that there may be one left if we go to a different place.  When we get there it is just sold out.  We have a hunch that maybe it could be at a remote, out of the way, place and it is not there either.  So at the end of the day we come home with absolutely nothing and we have spent the whole day looking to find what we thought we could find.  We have just been on a "wild goose chase".