waste one's breath
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I felt I was wasting my breath, trying to convince Wanda not to quit her job.
Другие идиомы:
- save one's breath
- catch one's breath
- with every (other) breath
- time to catch one's breath
- say (something) under one's breath
- out of breath
- in the same breath
- take (someone's) breath away
- breath of fresh air
- Don't hold your breath.
- all in one breath
- wait with bated breath
- hold one's breath
- able to breathe easily/freely again
- as broad as a barn door