fart in a windstorm

noun

Definitions

  1. Something utterly insignificant, ineffective, or fleeting.

    • [I]t vanished like a fart in a windstorm.
    • [W]e might hear of the declining profits of GM, or rising oil prices, or the latest pronouncements from Alan Greenspan (all of which are of less consequence to the long-term order of the universe than a gnat fart in a windstorm).
    • “It didn't do no more good than a fart in a windstorm.”

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