whistle past
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From whistle past the graveyard.
Verb
[edit]whistle past (third-person singular simple present whistles past, present participle whistling past, simple past and past participle whistled past)
- (informal, transitive) To ignore or deny obvious facts; to continue despite problems.
- The party can't keep whistling past these bad polling numbers.