piss in the wind
Waste your time
To piss in the wind is to waste effort on something futile or self-defeating—like urinating into a breeze that blows it back on you.
The image is vivid: you're not just failing, you're making things worse for yourself.
Trying to change his mind is pissing in the wind.
Sometimes appears as piss into the wind.
- SisypheanEndlessly, pointlessly laborious
- attemptEffort to accomplish
- quixoticImpractically pursuing lofty goals
- idiomFixed phrase, opaque meaning
- chasing rainbowsPursuing unrealistic goals
wild goose chase · beating a dead horse · fruitless · tilting · expression · pointless · unproductive · metaphor · impractical · hopeless · useless · barking up the wrong tree · herding cats · spinning your wheels · absurd · tilting at windmills · self-defeating · rearranging deck chairs
piss in the windhit the nail on the head
To be exactly correct
strike gold · hit the jackpot · make hay while the sun shines · strike while the iron is hot · succeed
piss in the windstrategic planning
Defining organizational direction systematically
play one's cards right · think ahead · pick one's battles · cover one's bases · hedge one's bets
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