Usually means: Waste time; achieve nothing significant.
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  1. whistle Dixie: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
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  3. whistle Dixie: Wiktionary
  4. whistle Dixie: Dictionary.com
  5. whistle dixie: FreeDictionary.org
  6. whistle Dixie: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (idiomatic, Southern US) To engage in idle conversational fantasies.

Similar:
whistle down the wind, whistle in the dark, whistle in the wind, chatter, whiffle, whizzle, gossip, whistle, wet one's whistle, kibitz, more...

Opposite:
serious business, get serious, get to point

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Similar:
whistle down the wind, whistle in the dark, whistle in the wind, chatter, whiffle, whizzle, gossip, whistle, wet one's whistle, kibitz, more...

Opposite:
serious business, get serious, get to point



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