This makes me sometimes think I'm whistling in the dark.

Do you hear the sound of whistling in the dark?

Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark.

Had they told themselves, whistling in the dark, that it couldn't happen to them?

The international community is whistling in the dark about Bosnia.

Still, there is an element of whistling in the dark.

At the time, those celebrations had felt a little like whistling in the dark.

I don't know, but it's a better bet than our present policy of whistling in the dark.

But there is nothing here that cannot also be interpreted as whistling in the dark.

People who don't see that are just whistling in the dark."

"They are a little bit whistling in the dark," a Western diplomat said.

The general ducked under the plane, then let out a low whistle in the dark.

Ghopal looked at him like he was whistling in the dark.

That came very much under the heading of whistling in the dark, Blade thought.

You're whistling in the dark and you know it.

It was more like someone whistling in the dark.

"I would say he was whistling in the dark."

I think the Kettle has gone off the boil and is whistling in the dark.

"Do you know something, or are you just whistling in the dark?"

That confidence may be in part whistling in the dark.

The sound of an optimist whistling in the dark to keep their spirits up.

But this was whistling in the dark, as Jodl's journal makes clear.

From his own mistakes, like whistling in the dark.

And obviously you're whistling in the dark if you think you're going to have common ground.

If those operators are gambling on there being a new cash deal for social care, they may be whistling in the dark.