save one's breath

省口气省气省口气吧省力

save one's breath 的定义

  1. Refrain from arguing about a lost cause, as in You can save your breath; I'm not going to change my mind. This term was also put as save your breath to cool your porridge, that is, by not blowing on the too hot liquid. The idea of not expending one's breath to say something another person doesn't want to hear dates from the early 1700s.

save one's breath 近义词

save one's breath

等同于 unavailing

save one's breath

等同于 futile

更多save one's breath例句

  1. Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  5. The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. Truth is a torch, but one of enormous size; so that we slink past it in rather a blinking fashion for fear it should burn us.
  10. Under the one-sixth they appear as slender, highly refractive fibers with double contour and, often, curled or split ends.