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whistled in the wind

whistled in the wind is the simple past and past participle of whistle in the wind.

Meaning of whistle in the wind

Verb

whistle in the wind (third-person singular simple present whistles in the wind, present participle whistling in the wind, simple past and past participle whistled in the wind)

  1. (UK, especially, idiomatic) To attempt something that is futile; to say something that is not heeded.
    • [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.2009 February 22, Simon Caulkin, “However good the pay, it doesn't buy results”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 29 Jul 2018

Questions about whistled in the wind

What is whistled in the wind the simple past and past participle of?
Whistled in the wind is the simple past and past participle of whistle in the wind.

Words near whistled in the wind in the dictionary

  1. whistled
  2. whistled Dixie
  3. whistled down the wind
  4. whistled for
  5. whistled in the dark
  6. whistled in the wind
  7. whistled past
  8. whistled past the graveyard
  9. whistled up
  10. Whistlefield
  11. whistlefish

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