๐ญ Wild-goose chase - Learn English vocabulary & idioms with 'Shakespeare Speaks'
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It was early in the evening.
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William Shakespeare is at home.
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He's expecting a visit from his actor friend Robert Harley.
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Good evening, Mr Shakespeare.
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Welcome, welcome Robert! Come in.
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Good evening Mister Harley...
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Miss Shakespeare... I'm sorry I'm late - I
was out horse riding.
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It was wonderful - so fast, so exciting!
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Ahhh, the wild-goose chase! Take care when
you race that way young Robert,
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we don't want to spoil those good looks of yours...
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Why is it called a wild-goose chase?
It's a horse race! They're not chasing geese!
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Dear daughter, a wild-goose chase is indeed
a kind of horse race.
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The riders have to follow one horse, keeping
up with him wherever he goes,
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just as wild geese follow the leader when they fly.
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Ohhh... I expect you kept up with him very well, Robert...!
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Thank you, daughter. Now to the play: Romeo and Juliet.
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Robert, you are playing Mercutio, Romeo's best friend.
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In this scene, there is a different kind of wild-goose chase.
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This chase is all about words and jokes.
Mercutio and Romeo are competing with each other
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each of them trying to tell the cleverest
and funniest jokes.
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A competition of intelligence, of wits and quick thinking!
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Mercutio will win, won't he!? He is handsome - and clever!
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Mercutio is indeed quick-witted, but Romeo
is better - much better,
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and Mercutio knows it - so he gives up this wild-goose chase
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before it even starts, saying:
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Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase...
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Nay, if thy wits run the wild-goose chase, I have done,
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for thou hast more of the wild goose in one of thy wits than, I am sure, I have in my whole five.
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We'll leave them there for now.
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Endless consumerism sends us on a wild-goose chase
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for happiness through materialism.
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We looked for the restaurant for hours, but
it was a wild-goose chase:
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turned out that it closed down years ago!
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So, no wild-goose chase for Mercutio.
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You could chase me, though Robert...
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Oh dear... to chase, or not to chase:
that really isn't a question.
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