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waste one's breath
waste one's breath
waste one's breath
Speak in vain (because no one agrees), as in
Don't waste your breath complaining to the supervisor-it won't help
. This notion was first recorded about 1400 as
wasting words
. The exact idiom was first recorded in 1667. Also see
save one's breath
.
See also:
breath
,
waste
Common Names:
Name
Gender
Pronounced
Usage
Tomislav
-
Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Medieval Slavic
SÉBastien
se-bas-TYAW
N
French
Gulistan
-
Kurdish
Stella
['stelə]
Maeve
MAYV
Irish, Irish Mythology
Nuray
-
Turkish
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