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Honestly, you're wasting your breath - he doesn't want to hear what anyone else has got to say.(CALD)

Don't waste your breath. I've already asked her to help and she said no. (CIDI)

You'd be wasting your breath reporting it to the police - they never look for stolen bikes.(CIDI)

abstinenční příznaky

I was suffering severe and painful withdrawal symptoms, and my mother was alarmed by my fits of weeping, my chronic insomnia, my thinness. (BNC)

So it is the woman who will experience the first withdrawal symptoms. (BNC)

Methadone works in the same way as heroin, but less effectively; it thus provides a way off heroin that minimises withdrawal symptoms. (BNC)

(informal) někdo by nikdy něco neudělal, ani za živa by někdo něco neudělal

What a terrible colour! I wouldn`t be seen dead in it. (English Idioms, Oxford)

Liz won`t accept Barry`s invitation to the disco. She doesn`t like him - says she wouldn`t be seen dead with him. (English Idioms, Oxford)