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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
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