| 释义 |
whistle in the windTry unsuccessfully to influence something that cannot be changed.Bertie may just be whistling in the wind with this one....- For years politicians and anti-drugs campaigners have chanted ‘Just Say No’ but they might as well have been whistling in the wind for all the effect this mantra, repeated incessantly, has had.
- Unless they can come up with a credible political and judicial scenario for the realisation of their objective, I fear that however strident their demands they amount to no more than whistling in the wind or baying at the moon.
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