whistle in the wind

Meaning: (especiallyUK,idiomatic)To attempt something that isfutile; to say something that is notheeded.2009February 22, Simon Caulkin, “However good the pay, it doesn't buy results”, inGuardian, UK, retrieved29 July 2018:[T]hey are expending more and more effort on trying to get right something that cannot, and should not, be done in the first place.[…]Endless exhortations to "do it better" are, to put it politely,whistling in the wind.2014January 21, “Don'twhistle in the wind?”, inDLH Marketing, UK, retrieved29 July 2018:It doesn’t matter how strong your USP is or how powerful your value proposition, if the message isn’t reaching the right people you'rewhistling in the wind.2018July 9, Farouk Cassim, "Let’s do much more thanwhistling in the wind",voices360.com(South Africa)(retrieved 29 July 2018):[E]veryone is doing no more thanwhistlingpowerlesslyin the wind.

Examples:

EN: You know, that belt of his can whistle in the wind like you've never seen.
ES: Ese cinturón podía silbar en el viento como nunca lo has visto. El Señor no tenía nada que ver con el por qué tu padrastro te golpeaba.
EN: So I'll just listen to the whistle in the wind
HI: तभी हवाओं में सुनाई देती हैं
EN: I know I whistle in the wind.
TE: నాకు తెలుసు నేను నిశ్శబ్దం అంచు మీద పాడుతున్నాను
EN: If it had been me, I'd have let him whistle in the wind.
TE: ఆయన వెన్ను నిమిరితే జ్వరం తగ్గినట్లుండేది.

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