waste your breath
If you waste your breath, you spend time and energy trying to give advice that is ignored:
Honestly, you're wasting your breath - he doesn't want to hear what anyone else has got to say.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving advice
- advice
- advisable
- advise
- advisory
- backseat driver
- caution
- consulting
- counsellor
- GDA
- hint
- lifestyle manager
- mentor
- Monday
- Monday-morning quarterback idiom
- pick
- pick sb's brains idiom
- preach
- professional advice
- talk some sense into sb idiom
- tip
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