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empty suit
noun as in paper tiger
noun as in straw man
Weak matches
Example Sentences
Remember his summer blitz of attack ads about Obama being an empty suit, a celebrity and a pretty face and all that?
And far from defining him as an empty suit, it suggests he is one filled with both hubris and sanctimony.
Ali had devised a method of protection for the empty suit the Medic would wear—had that held?
I open the case—I take out the collar—I place it gently on the porch railing—and I take the empty suit-case into the house.
We furnished him with an empty suit-case, and, from the window, watched him making for Mitre Court at a smart double.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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