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both excellent examples of a moving goal, or moving goalposts.
– Fattie
Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 17:37
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Chasing rainbows is a good example - you can see a rainbow and chase after it, but it seems always to recede. The other two, though, are examples of chasing something which doesn't exist in the first place.
– WhatRoughBeast
Commented Dec 1, 2015 at 18:08
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This doesn't describe a moving goal, it describes the act of attempting to meet the moving goal.
– DCShannon
Commented Dec 2, 2015 at 18:48
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@DCShannon Even worse, these examples describe tasks with imaginary goals, let alone moving goals. Definitely shouldn't be the accepted answer when we have "carrot on a stick" and "Sisyphean task" as well.
– TylerH
Commented Dec 2, 2015 at 20:03
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Chasing rainbows is chasing things you will never get, wild goose chase you often get what you are getting but in a round about way, and snipe hunt absolutely makes no sense at all. Going snipe hunting is taking kids out hunting for fake animals. It is really a travesty that this has 30 upvotes and shows that the people voting have as little English knowledge as the author.
– RyeɃreḁd
Commented Dec 5, 2015 at 11:51

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