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empty suit

/emp-tee soot/US // ˈɛmp ti ˈsut //

空空如也,空心服,空空如也的衣服,空空荡荡的衣服

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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.

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Examples

  • San Francisco was the first city to pass one in 2006; since then, 14 other cities and three states have followed suit.

  • Eventually, DeCrow and Seidenberg filed suit against the East Village mainstay.

  • He defied the atheism of communism and the empty religious practices of Putinism.

  • Otherwise, we will be but celebrating an empty holiday, missing its true meaning altogether.

  • The pieces are near-identical, excepting the signature buttons on the Chanel suit and a few small tailoring details.

  • Behold a dumpy, comfortable British paterfamilias in a light flannel suit and a faded sun hat.

  • He is what the bill wishes to make for us, a regular root doctor, and will suit the place exactly.

  • We had three long tables which Liszt arranged to suit himself, his own place being in the middle.

  • Herein he found an empty stall that was dark enough not to be seen, and still afforded sufficient light to read in.

  • Not a dollar did he possess—not even did he have a suit of clothes any more, and wore every day his corduroys.