empty suit / ˈɛmp ti ˈsut /

空空如也空心服空空如也的衣服空空荡荡的衣服

empty suit 的定义

n. 名词 noun

Slang.

  1. 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.

empty suit 近义词

empty suit

等同于 paper tiger

empty suit

等同于 straw man

empty suit 的近义词 5

更多empty suit例句

  1. San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.
  2. Eventually, DeCrow and Seidenberg filed suit against the East Village mainstay.
  3. He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism.
  4. Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.
  5. The pieces are near-identical, excepting the signature buttons on the Chanel suit and a few small tailoring details.
  6. Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.
  7. He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.
  8. We had three long tables which Liszt arranged to suit himself, his own place being in the middle.
  9. Herein he found an empty stall that was dark enough not to be seen, and still afforded sufficient light to read in.
  10. Not a dollar did he possess—not even did he have a suit of clothes any more, and wore every day his corduroys.