whistle for | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Torequestor ask for with no chance of success.2009, Max Arthur,We Will Remember Them: Voices from the Aftermath of the Great War,→ISBN:If we wanted something we couldwhistle forit - but if the Australians wanted something you'd got to get it for them, or else.2012, Joan Jonker,Walking My Baby Back Home,→ISBN:She couldwhistle forit now; she wouldn't get a penny from him even if she crawled on all fours.2014, Tess Read,The Secret Diary of Eric Cowell - Aged 6 1/2 months,→ISBN:And if it was milk I was after from that environment I could clearlywhistle forit.1973, Doris Lessing,The Grass is Singing,→ISBN, page96:And as for ceilings, you canwhistle forthem. I have lived in this house for six years and it hasn't hurt me.; Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seewhistle,‎for.

Examples:

EN: He can go whistle for it!
ES: ¡Podría silbar por ello!
EN: And whistle for the Jews.
ES: ¿Y que espere a ver qué pasa?
EN: Are they blowing that whistle for us ?
ES: ¿Están cantando para nosotros?
EN: When I get lost in the Alps, I'll whistle for you.
ES: Cuando me pierda en los Alpes, te silbaré.
EN: A whistle for calling your sheep dog.
ES: Un silbato para llamar a su perro pastor.
EN: For that you'll whistle for your supper.
ES: Te quedarás sin cenar.
EN: So when you whistle for me, I'll whistle back with a blowpipe.
ES: Y cuando me silbes, te silbaré con una cerbatana.
ES: Y cuando me silbes, te silbaré con una cerbatana.
EN: Did you whistle for a taxi, lady?
ES: ¿Llamó a un taxi, señorita?
EN: Now, I'll give you one whistle for quiet and two whistles to resume work.
ES: Con un silbido deberán parar. Con dos volverán a trabajar.
EN: When I whistle for 'er ten times, let her go.
ES: Cuando silbe 10 veces, suéltala.
EN: When you can't get anybody else you can just whistle for me, eh?
ES: Como no consigues a nadie, crees que puedes silbar...
EN: What if I told you to just get out of here and go whistle for it?
ES: ¿ Y si le dijese que se fuera y que puede esperar sentado?
EN: Did you whistle for me? There's a train coming.
ES: - ¿Me ha llamado?
EN: So, if you heard a girl whistle for a cab, it wasn't Linda.
ES: Así que, si oyó a una chica silbar a un taxi, esa no era Linda.
EN: You tell me you heard her whistle for a cab, too.
ES: Dices que la oíste silbar pidiendo un taxi también.

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