单词	lip service
释义	lip serviceˈlip ˌservice noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient. Little has really changed despite lip service paid to the democratic process. Local authorities are expected to pay more than lip service to this requirement. Politicians pay lip service to crime. Some made a good job of the sandwich element, but many paid it lip service. That they were now even giving lip service to these ideas is significant. They wonder if your support is mere lip service. Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► pay lip service to somebody/something It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient. Politicians pay lip service to crime. Previous governments have paid lip service to the idea but achieved little. The conventional methodology tends to pay lip service to user involvement. The professors all pay lip service to welcoming every point of view, but most really do not. They pay lip service to equality but they don't want to have to do anything committed about it. Though everybody pays lip service to performance, politics is often the ultimate arbiter of their fate. We need to stop paying lip service to them. pay lip service to somebody/something to say that you support or agree with something without doing anything to prove it:  organizations that pay lip service to career development
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