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pound sand idiom to do something that has no purpose and is a waste of time: "We don't want to look like we are pounding sand," he said in opposing a delay in taking military action. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Useless and futile adrift aimless aimlessly aimlessness airy-fairy fruitless fruitlessly fruitlessness futile futilely negate negation no goodidiom non-viable nugatory unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness until you are blue in the faceidiom unviability |