blue in the face
基本解释
- 气急败坏,精疲力尽;面红耳赤;徒劳无功
英汉例句
- Cynical IT pros will argue this until they are blue in the face, but it's true.
愤世嫉俗的IT人士也许会质疑这一切直至气急败坏,但事实就是如此。
blog.sina.com.cn - But I've talked about it until I was blue in the face, and for me, all of those solutions are simply temporary fixes.
但我在这方面已经费尽唇舌,对我来说所有这些解决方案都只是权宜之计。 - Then they could talk about her till they went blue in the face, Bertha Supple too, and Edy, little spitfire, because she would be twentytwo in November.
那样,大家就会议论她,直到脸上发青。 伯莎·萨波尔也不例外; 还有小炮竹伊迪,因为十一月她就满二十岁了。 - It's like sports and cars, where we can argue batting average and horsepower until we're blue in the face.
ENGADGET: This is the Modem World: Why we fight - We can talk until we are blue in the face about volatility and how investments fluctuate but they are intellectual concepts and loss is not.
FORBES: Three Key Investment Concepts Everyone Needs to Know - Locals have been consulted until they are blue in the face.
ECONOMIST: But have the right lessons been learned?