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
&Thorn;ÓR	-	Icelandic
Akemi	ah-ke-mee	Japanese
Prachi	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati
Ludo	-	Dutch
Paige	[peidʒ]
Priya	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali