won't hold water

to be inadequate, insubstantial, or ill-conceived. Sorry, your ideas won't hold water. Nice try, though. The prosecution's case wouldn't hold water, so the defendant was released.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yorath	-	Welsh
Liat	-	Hebrew
Soini	SOY-nee	Finnish
Nisha	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Bengali, Nepali
Neirin	-	Welsh
Sami (2)	-	Arabic