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chase moonbeams

chase moonbeams verb: to waste time in a fruitless attempt.

Verb

chase moonbeams (third-person singular simple present chases moonbeams, present participle chasing moonbeams, simple past and past participle chased moonbeams)

  1. To waste time in a fruitless attempt.
    • The Guardian's housing specialist was outraged by Tom's conviction that the city was chasing moonbeams in applying for compulsory purchase orders to build two little Manchesters in Mobberley and Lymm.2009, Harold Evans, My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times: An Autobiography
    • Then for many others it's become a chase around the block looking for miracles that are never there. Here, there and everywhere they search, chasing moonbeams and ending up disillusioned.2010, Raymond Arroyo Jr., Lead Us Not into Temptation

Forms of chase moonbeams

third-person singular presentchases moonbeams
present participlechasing moonbeams
past participlechased moonbeams
pastchased moonbeams

Questions about chase moonbeams

What does chase moonbeams mean?
Chase moonbeams means to waste time in a fruitless attempt.
What part of speech is chase moonbeams?
Chase moonbeams is a verb.
What is the past tense of chase moonbeams?
The past tense of chase moonbeams is chased moonbeams.

Words near chase moonbeams in the dictionary

  1. Chase doll
  2. Chase dolls
  3. chase down
  4. chase gun
  5. chase guns
  6. chase moonbeams
  7. chase off
  8. chase one's own tail
  9. chase one's tail
  10. chase pennies with dollars
  11. chase plane

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