I was about to use a common synonym for "fishing expedition" with the word "hunt," but the first word didn't come out. It's not a witch hunt, not a snipe hunt, but a radiating search for a particular desired result with a small but significant chance of success the kind of hunt you might expect Russian materials scientists to embark on for an alloy with a specific set of properties. I don't think it was a treasure hunt or a scavenger hunt, either. What kind of hunt am I forgetting?
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Glenn Knickerbocker:
I don't think there's a set phrase, which may be why Glenn can't think of it I'd just use "a (whatever it is they're looking for) hunt". In the example, "an alloy hunt".
As a programmer, for example, I have gone on many a bug hunt.
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I was about to use a common synonym for "fishing expedition" with the word "hunt," but the first word didn't ... I don't think it was a treasure hunt or a scavenger hunt, either. What kind of hunt am I forgetting?
I don't think there's a set phrase, which may be why Glenn can't think of it I'd just use "a (whatever it is they're looking for) hunt". In the example, "an alloy hunt".
As a programmer, for example, I have gone on many a bug hunt.
Mark Brader > "Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember Toronto > the exact instant when I realized that a large part (Email Removed) > of my life... was going to be spent in finding
I was about to use a common synonym for "fishing expedition" with the word "hunt," but the first word didn't ... I don't think it was a treasure hunt or a scavenger hunt, either. What kind of hunt am I forgetting?
A dragnet?
James
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I was about to use a common synonym for "fishing ... scavenger hunt, either. What kind of hunt am I forgetting?
A dragnet?
A sea hunt? (With Lloyd Bridges?)
Skitt (AmE)
A dragnet?
A sea hunt? (With Lloyd Bridges?)
Let us not forget Easter Egg hunts.
Maria Conlon
I was about to use a common synonym for "fishing expedition" with the word "hunt," but the first word didn't ... I don't think it was a treasure hunt or a scavenger hunt, either. What kind of hunt am I forgetting?
Methodical?
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I was about to use a common synonym for "fishing expedition" with the word "hunt," but the first word didn't ... I don't think it was a treasure hunt or a scavenger hunt, either. What kind of hunt am I forgetting?
A snark hunt?
Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed
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I was about to use a common synonym for "fishing expedition" with the word "hunt," but the first word didn't ... I don't think it was a treasure hunt or a scavenger hunt, either. What kind of hunt am I forgetting?
Brainstorming:
A job hunt? Hunt and peck? Bargain-hunting? Hunter-gathering? Something to do with the Holy Grail? A quest?
Why not "treasure hunt"?
Are you sure that the expression you're looking for goes with "hunt"? Might it be a "search"? Carrying out a search pattern?
Or a wild goose chase.
John Varela
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