until you are blue in the face
If you say or shout something until you are blue in the face, you are wasting your efforts because you will get no results:
You can tell her to clean her room until you are blue in the face, but she won't do it.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- flaccid
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- moon around
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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