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whistle
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whistle
1. a device for making a shrill high-pitched sound by means of air or steam under pressure
2. Music any pipe that is blown down its end and produces sounds on the principle of a flue pipe, usually having as a mouthpiece a fipple cut in the side


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You have only to watch any game in which Bonds is involved, and see how opposing managers regard him, to realize that the MVP debate still begins and ends with the Giants left fielder and that SBC Park visitors are whistling in the dark if they expect to leave unscathed all weekend.
The next room was dominated by the whistled melody of the revolutionary anthem, the Internationale, coming from a black radio on top of Rui Toscano's sculpture Whistling in the Dark, 2001, composed of three bricks, blue, red, and yellow--a subtle comment on the relationship between the utopias of artistic modernism and those of the political vanguard.
It's also a great example of whistling in the dark.
 
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