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whistle Dixie
Idioms and Phrases
Engage in unrealistic, hopeful fantasizing, as in If you think you can drive there in two hours, you're whistling Dixie . This idiom alludes to the song “Dixie” and the vain hope that the Confederacy, known as Dixie , would win the Civil War.Example Sentences
Whistle Dixie: After Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu - the last white Democrat in Dixie - got trounced in a runoff election, a wave of commentators suggested that the Democrats should write off the South.
He also gave a terse answer when asked whether the case might affect his own future with the Bears, telling a reporter to "whistle Dixie."
He began to whistle 'Dixie' and oil his pistols.
We would be satisfied with a method that made every presumptive carcinogen sit up and whistle Dixie.
Though Advance Australia Fair is now the official tune, some sour Australians would just as soon whistle Dixie.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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