Urban Dictionary: Whistling in the dark

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To comfort yourself via distraction when you cannot avoid a frightening situation.

While her mother was in surgery, Norma tried to remember all the state capitals. It was her way of whistling in the dark.

by NH Baritone December 26, 2007

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When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

Bro since I got dirtpilled on Tuesday I have made sooo many worm friends and made them soo many little houses to get married in. Me? Lonely? No you’re the lonely one u lawn owning freak

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Whistling in the dark

To fear the worst and hope for the best.

"The mayor'll call...he's got to!"
"You're just whistling in the dark, Larry The Baby Killer."

by Macsotsu March 02, 2005

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