to spit in the wind
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***to do something totally pointless, fruitless, or futile; to waste one's time doing something that will not or cannot come to pass
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Both the Church report and the atheist professor are spitting into the wind, of course, because the incoming tide of superstition has a long way to rise yet.
To be perfectly honest, I feel like voting is just spitting in the wind, so I do n't even bother.
