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  1. whistle in the wind: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. whistle in the wind: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (whistle in the wind)

verb:  (especially UK, idiomatic) To attempt something that is futile; to say something that is not heeded.

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