be wasted on sb

be wasted on sb if something is wasted on someone, they do not understand how good or useful it is〔某物〕浪费在某人身上〔因为此人不懂其好处〕:•Her good advice was wasted on the children.她对孩子们的规劝是白费口舌了。

• keep the weather of
• louvring
• centre of population / population centre
• ovoid
• Saha's equation
• vice-chairmanship
• biedermeiers
• land-jobber
• in good fig
• lineside
• Johnson,Van
• pulmonary aspergillosis
• poikilothermy
• experimentalize
• authoritarian personality
• arrant knave
• tiger shark
• discontinuation
• chameleons
• kation
• Caesarism
• sell-offs
• aerogels
• glissandos
• at variance (with sb/sth)
• double-tongue
• deontologies
• entered hound
• carnaper
• Gray Power
• fallalery
• pen up/in
• double-spot tuning
• be billed to do sth
• pearl fish
• tiddlywink
• from no quarter
• Cherokees
• make no difficulty (或 difficulties)
• folding fin
• electronic data processings
• electric multipole field
• five-case note
• not have a good word (to say) for someone (或something)
• quar.
• oxim
• fuel injections
• quarter-wave
• gill clefts
• tillicums
• Mato, Grosso
• cabless
• knowable
• gear drive
• Magellanic clouds
• wear-proof
• take your breath away
• go over the ground
• stinkpot
• immies
• syconiums
• leaky gene
• moneychangers
• in running order
• pedal point
• elasticizing
• grosso modo
• bless
• wave aside
• dry-bulb thermometers
• quadruplex
• FTC
• suburban neurosis
• macrorheology
• see the colour of someone's money
• scaffolders
• without a parallel
• dribble from
• microphotographic
• deck hook
• moon-knife
• the downstairs
• make no doubt
• ovule
• have one's whack
• suitress
• ionic charge
• base of supply
• ironweeds
• antwerps
• servas
• dehumanize,dehumanized
• put to sack
• sunwise
• make no bones about (doing) sth
• enquirer
• Arica
• swear a charge (或an accusation) against
• voluntary muscles
• simple root