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Whistling "Dixie"
'The song I Wish I Was in Dixie", "Dixie's Land" even added a new term to the American lexicon: "Whistling 'Dixie'" is a slang expression meaning "[engaging] in unrealistically rosy fantasizing". For example, "Don't just sit there whistling 'Dixie'!" is a reprimand against inaction, and "You ain't just whistling 'Dixie'!" indicates that the addressee is serious about the matter at hand.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...xie&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
and http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whistling dixie
-- Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie? [The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976]. :curse:
'The song I Wish I Was in Dixie", "Dixie's Land" even added a new term to the American lexicon: "Whistling 'Dixie'" is a slang expression meaning "[engaging] in unrealistically rosy fantasizing". For example, "Don't just sit there whistling 'Dixie'!" is a reprimand against inaction, and "You ain't just whistling 'Dixie'!" indicates that the addressee is serious about the matter at hand.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.c...xie&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
and http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whistling dixie
-- Are you gonna pull those pistols or whistle Dixie? [The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976]. :curse: