be whistling in the dark

The international community is whistling in the dark about Bosnia.

"I would say he was whistling in the dark."

I think the Kettle has gone off the boil and is whistling in the dark.

Such talk may be whistling in the dark, but evidence exists that a Soviet hard line is far from unanimous.

If those operators are gambling on there being a new cash deal for social care, they may be whistling in the dark.

"Perhaps I am whistling in the dark," she said.

Other officials and experts say this is whistling in the dark, a tactic to brace the public for more violence.

Ghopal looked at him like he was whistling in the dark.

He was whistling in the dark, of course.

But this was whistling in the dark, as Jodl's journal makes clear.

Most of them are whistling in the dark."

I'd warned her for months that she was whistling in the dark, but she refused to listen.

This, she knew, was whistling in the dark.

Walters, insisting on his innocence, said the investigators were whistling in the dark.

"I can't quite be sure," she said, "if you are trying to make fun of me or are whistling in the dark."

His most recent release was Whistling in the Dark, issued in 2006.

She and Balthasar were whistling in the dark, and sounded it.

Horst and Jurgen had been whistling in the dark.

Yet he knew that a junior post-captain expecting to be treated fairly by a new flag officer was whistling in the dark.

Even the 48-year-old Prime Minister seemed to be whistling in the dark today, speaking in quiet and subdued tones.

They were whistling in the dark, choking on their own despair, each wondering when their own painful pointless death would come.

"There is talk of a last-ditch defense in the Alps, but I think that is whistling in the dark."

Kris grinned over her shoulder at Janet, but the woman was whistling in the dark: her eyes were scared and her chin trembled slightly.

Later, on the wall, under stars that sparkled mockingly, Anyeck said, "Father is whistling in the dark.

"We are whistling in the dark, Mr. Metcalfe.