all mouth and trousers

短语

发音

AU

别名

all mouth and no trousers

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.

    习语

词源

From mouth, meaning "talk" rather than action, and trousers, presumably at the time of origin, a reference to masculinity, either as trousers as a male item of clothing, or a reference to the genitals.

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