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until you are blue in the face idiom If you say or shout something until you are blue in the face, you are wasting your efforts because you will get no results: 任凭你磨破嘴皮 You can tell her to clean her room until you are blue in the face, but she won't do it.任凭你磨破嘴皮叫她打扫自己的房间,她也不会去做的。 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 unpractical unrealistic unrealistically unseriousness unviability
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