blue in the face
基本解釋
- 氣急敗壞，精疲力盡；麪紅耳赤；徒勞無功
英漢例句
- Cynical IT pros will argue this until they are blue in the face, but it's true.
憤世嫉俗的IT人士也許會質疑這一切直至氣急敗壞，但事實就是如此。
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.
但我在這方麪已經費盡脣舌，對我來說所有這些解決方案都衹是權宜之計。 - 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.
那樣，大家就會議論她，直到臉上發(fā)青。 伯莎·薩波爾也不例外； 還有小砲竹伊迪，因爲十一月她就滿二十嵗了。 - 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?