paper chase
hare and hounds

Our only hope is that you can sort your way through the paper chase.

This was what the case had come down to: a paper chase.

"Do you think the paper chase will be good sport?"

They went out on a paper chase early this morning.

I was asked to do a straightforward paper chase, as we call it, and a few interviews.

He began the paper chase again from the beginning.

I have had just about enough of this temporal paper chase.

"It's like a paper chase where not one scrap may be overlooked."

"The Paper Chase" is the book you're supposed to read before you go to law school.

Still, a paper chase through last year's records may turn up an unexpected deduction.