pour water into a sieve

pour water into a sieve〈谚语〉竹篮打水一场空：The parents tried hard to admonish their idle son，asking him to be diligent，but they were simply pouring water into a sieve.父母努力规劝他们的怠惰孩子，叫他勤俭，但是他们纯粹是竹篮打水一场空。

• immaterialises
• Sp.Am
• interpellator
• drop out
• cockpit crew
• add-up
• finishing temperature
• draw plays
• fabulously
• Joyce,James (Augustine Aloysius)
• shunpiking
• delve for
• Staphylinoidea
• swiggers
• black scoter
• seed fish
• set one's cap for
• governorates
• that (about) sums it up
• top-loaded vertical antenna
• quite a bit 等
• firm-jaw
• F and A, f. & a.
• Neo-Darwinian
• cotton root rot
• Brachiopoda
• sell like hot cakes
• apophthegmatically
• supraconscious
• Avignon
• lamiaceous
• swage blocks
• scot and lots
• nulliparous
• nonproductive sphere
• with blind fury
• strabismometer
• out of consideration for
• cancelations
• R.P.F.
• payment on terms
• blackenest
• elliptical galaxy
• postnatus
• surefootedly
• faxable
• unwashedness
• be stuck with
• septarium
• SCD
• lava lake
• inheritance tax
• blink back
• single-hander
• gill cleft
• coldish
• virulent
• in circulation / out of circulation
• cities
• run that by me again!
• take a leaf from someone's notebook
• midi skirt / dress / coat
• bluepoint
• Luthuli, Albert John
• atoxigenic
• meteorolites
• leopard-skin chief
• senior service
• weight against
• bake out
• glaciered
• fall short not come up to someone's expectations
• nonhygroscopic
• conmanship
• Bavarian
• Virgin Islands
• have many irons on the fire
• spooferies
• trichinal
• anomias
• fibrocartilage
• .lbt
• by the time that
• vinegarroons
• in the wrong box
• foxiest
• busboys
• polysulfones
• the lowdown (on sth / sb)
• coenzyme R
• bed place
• dithionite
• bedsits
• imprecated
• brambles
• cystoscopes
• coral bells, coralbells
• stripped to the shirt
• ogre
• doveeyed