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• Was he pulling a " snipe hunt " on me?
• He might as well have suggested a snipe hunt.
• A local newspaper called the affair a " snipe hunt " and canard.
• So they took him on a snipe hunt.
• What exactly is a snipe hunt?
• Folklorist Simon J . Bronner writes that the snipe hunt has a part in children's folklore in which
• A snipe hunt is such a prank, when a newcomer or credulous person is given an impossible task.
• "They took all the new guys out to the beach on a snipe hunt, " he said.
• "Going on a snipe hunt " is a phrase suggesting a fool's errand, or an impossible task.
• While the description of the prey differs from the North American snipe hunt, the nature of the joke is the same.
• While the term " snipe hunt " usually refers to a prank, snipe can in fact be hunted for sport.
• If it was a hoax, maybe I could pass it on to another fisherman, a sort of Everglades-style snipe hunt.
• The quest to clear up the confusion led a reporter on what at times appeared to be a snipe hunt of his own Friday.
• Sometimes the snipe hunt is dispensed with altogether, with the senior sailor merely pointing to a spot on the deck and inviting the junior examine it.
• Most often the myth is used as a practical joke or snipe hunt played on junior sailors, exploiting their naivete and natural curiosity with their new surroundings.
• She writes charming, funny, poignant stories about long marriages, sibling bonds, snipe hunts and weird old widows who sit on their front porches and scare children.
• But The Dictionary of American Slang calls it " a nonexistent animal, " and says a snipe hunt is sending out someone on a wild-goose chase.
• The snipe hunt was in existence as early as the 1840s in the United States . and is a rite of passage often associated with groups such as the Boy Scouts.
• In the early 1960s, front-wheel-drive cars were new and asking a car mechanic to repair a Mini's rear differential was a popular snipe hunt.
• I suspect this was a variety of snipe hunt to persuade kids not to wash their ears before the trip . talk ) 17 : 58, 14 April 2010 ( UTC)