To ask for with no chance of success.
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If we wanted something we could whistle for it - but if the Australians wanted something you'd got to get it for them, or else.
Submitted on July 07, 2010
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| whistle for | Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see whistle, for. |
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