fart in a windstorm

English

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Noun

fart in a windstorm (plural farts in a windstorm or farts in windstorms)

  1. (idiomatic, mildly vulgar) Something utterly insignificant, ineffective, or fleeting.
    • 2004, David Unger, Life in the Damn Tropics, →ISBN, p. 62 (Google preview):
      [I]t vanished like a fart in a windstorm.
    • 2005 May 9, Phil Rockstroh, "Running On Fumes," swans.com (retrieved 8 Aug 2015):
      [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).
    • 2013, Carl Douglass, Saga of a Neurosurgeon Series Book Six: The Vulture and the Phoenix (ebook), →ISBN, ch. 6 (Google preview):
      “It didn't do no more good than a fart in a windstorm.”
    • 2014, July 28, Kim Bolan, "B.C. Red Scorpion and associates arrested in Alberta (comment by rowdyroddypimper)," Vancouver Sun (Canada) (retrieved 8 Aug 2015):
      Like a fart in a windstorm so are the days of their lives.
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