"Whistle Dixie" nghĩa là gì?

Giảm béo, tập gym phải quyết tâm, đừng để chẳng đi đến đâu. Photo courtesy Sascha Wenninger.

'Whistle Dixie' nghĩa là nói chuyện ảo tưởng, chẳng đi đến đâu; phí thời giờ (to engage in idle conversational fantasies, waste your time).

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Congress could take a lead in removing the “Stars and Bars” from all government property but given the political divisions in Washington they are more likely to whistle Dixie and do nothing.

Without a long-term commitment to a properly financed and independent structure to help people manage the issues of overweight and physical inactivity through bottom-up national and local solutions, we might as well whistle Dixie to this huge public health issue.

Did they whistle Dixie as the loans they had already made slowly matured? Er…no. They found a way to bend the rules. Thus came the ‘securitisation’ of mortgage loans that led to the subprime crisis of 2007. You remember, the one that collapsed the banking system around the world.

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