merry dance

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merry dance

noun merry dances

idiomatic A useless waste of time resulting from a deception. The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night.
Similar: merry chase, wild-goose chase

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@misc{merry_dance_2026,
  title = {merry dance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/merry%20dance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}