"I think people who say this won't change are whistling past the graveyard," he said.

It's perfectly possible that I'm just whistling past the graveyard.

I did not say so but my outburst was part whistling past the graveyard.

Republicans dismiss this argument as Democrats' whistling past the graveyard.

"Just when we were about to whistle past the graveyard of what happened 10 years ago, we get this."

Maybe some investors were whistling past the graveyard, but many said they had sound reasons for staying in the market.

Maybe it is the baseball version of whistling past the graveyard, circa 2001.

"Right now," said one Republican strategist, "we're whistling past the graveyard."

But the Gore folks are whistling past the graveyard.

"You sound as if you were whistling past the graveyard.

Christians who still believe the Court only created a level playing field for all faiths are whistling past the graveyard.

"It's not just a pipe dream or whistling past the graveyard," he added.

Every so often, New Yorkers find themselves whistling past the graveyard.

Even to Truth, the sound of her words had a forlorn echo: whistling past the graveyard.

"Whistling past the graveyard," Lucilla said and then had to explain the expression.

But some detect a bit of whistling past the graveyard among those who predict a rosy future.

But putting a positive twist on the day's frigid weather may be whistling past the graveyard.

Halloween reminds us that we're whistling past the graveyard.

The Governor called the Buchanan blast "more whistling past the graveyard."

By accentuating the positive and ignoring or playing down the negative, he said, the leaders are "whistling past the graveyard."

This is the sound of techno-boosters whistling past the graveyard of privacy.

A few cars raced through the streets flying the flag, whistling past the graveyard of Mexican glory.

"The time for whistling past the graveyard's over.

But this was just a foul-mouthed version of whistling past the graveyard, and both of them knew it.

In some crazy sense, he is whistling past the graveyard for drivers fearing instant death; so far this year, 40 have been killed, 2,000 robbed.