empty suit

Example Sentences

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Jessie saying "night night" and giving a salute to an empty suit of armour on her way out of the castle one evening was perhaps the epitome of her brilliant eccentricity.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

McCarthy is an empty suit, a man without taste or style.

From Salon • Jan. 12, 2023

Mr. Ossoff, meanwhile, is presenting a clean-cut look, offering himself up as a policy-wise technocrat and pushing back against attempts to cast him as an empty suit.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2020

I just liked the idea of there being an empty suit there.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2017

He’s a scarecrow, an empty suit of straw.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin