| 单词 | empty suit |
| 释义 | empty suit[ emp-tee soot ] / ˈɛmp ti ˈsut / SEE SYNONYMS FOR empty suit ON THESAURUS.COM noun Slang. an executive, manager, or official regarded as ineffectual, incompetent, or lacking in leadership qualities such as creativity and empathy: Their executive search came up with one empty suit after another. Origin of empty suitFirst recorded in 1950–55; empty + suit (in the sense “faceless decision maker”) Words nearby empty suitempty nest, empty nester, empty-nest syndrome, Empty Quarter, empty set, empty suit, empty word, empurple, empyema, empyesis, empyreal Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Idioms and Phrases with empty suitempty suit An unimportant person; also, a phony. For example, Don't pay any attention to him—he's just an empty suit, or She acts as though she knows what she's doing, but she's really an empty suit. This graphic expression calls up the image of an empty suit of clothes. [c. 1970] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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