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Whistling Dixie
(USA) If someone is whistling Dixie, they talk about things in a more positive way than the reality.
Dixie
Dixie whistle Dixie Slang To engage in unrealistically rosy fantasizing:
“If you think mass transportation is going to replace the automobile I think you're whistling Dixie” (Henry Ford II).
whistle Dixie
whistle Dixie 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.
you ain't (just) whistling Dixie
What you aloof said is actually true; you ain't kidding. "Dixie" was a song accepted amid Confederate soldiers during the US Civil War, eventually advancing to represent abandoned chitchat, asinine fantasies, or absurd nonsense. Primarily heard in US. A: "That storm looks like it could do some austere damage." B: "You ain't aloof whistling Dixie! We'd bigger get all the acreage accessories stowed central afore it hits." A: "Hoo boy, these banking after-effects are appealing grim." B: "You ain't whistlin' Dixie, Tom."Learn more: Dixie, whistleYou ain't aloof whistlin' Dixie.
Rur. You are right. Tom: Sure is hot today. Bill: Yeah, you ain't aloof whistlin' Dixie. It's a scorcher. Charlie: That was a acceptable movie. Jane: You ain't aloof whistlin' Dixie. It was the best I've anytime seen.Learn more: Dixie, just
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