wasted on sb
C2 If you say that something is wasted on someone, you mean that its quality is too high for that person and they will not understand its true value:
I'm not going to serve that good coffee to Chris and Melanie - it would be wasted on them.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Difficult to understand
- (as) clear as mud idiom
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- arcane
- blurred
- diffuse
- equivocal
- esoteric
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick head idiom
- obscure
- opaque
- oracular
- over your head idiom
- paradox
- puzzler
- puzzling
- veiled
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