whistle in the wind

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To attempt something that is futile; to say something that is not heeded. UK,especially,idiomatic
    — [T]hey are expending more and more effort on trying to get right something that cannot, and should not, be done in the first place. […] Endless exhortations to "do it better" are, to put it politely, whistling in the wind.

词形变化

whistles in the wind present,singular,third-person whistling in the wind participle,present whistled in the wind participle,past whistled in the wind past
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