whistle for (English, verb)
expansion: whistle for (third-person singular simple present whistles for, present participle whistling for, simple past and past participle whistled for)
Senses:
glosses: To request or ask for with no chance of success.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see whistle, for.
Forms:
form: whistles for
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: whistling for
tags: participle
present
form: whistled for
tags: participle
past
form: whistled for
tags: past