Hmm, so saying something 'until you're blue in the face' meanstelling someone something is a waste of time because nothing will happen or change.

嗯，因此说某事弄得“直到你脸色发青”，意思就是说告诉某人某件事情是浪费时间，因为什么也不会发生或者改变。

youdao

Instead of saying something has been done, you can say you've tried something similar, and ask how to adjust it to get a different result.

与其说你已经做了什么，不如说你曾试过类似的，同时询问如何调节才可以得到一个不同的结果。

youdao

Not so hot also is a way of saying that you do not really like something.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

He was continually imagining himself to be someone on the verge of saying something spectacular, but he wasn't quite there yet.

他一直想象自己,成为那种能说出一些惊世骇俗的话的人，但是他还没有到那一步。

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And you remember Yeats in "The Second Coming," - there's a beast that's kind of-- He doesn't know what it is, and here he's saying something similar.

你们记得在二次圣临里“,有提到一只野兽-,他不知道那到底是什么，在此他表达相似的想法。

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There are several stories about him that nobody knows or didn't know until I wrote the book, which is saying he was something of a war hero.

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His intent was to keep any of them from saying something that might call into question his version of reality.

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There was an opportunity to take the high road of courtesy, of saying something classy.

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