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paper tiger

纸老虎,造纸老虎,纸虎,老虎

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, group, nation, or thing that has the appearance of strength or power but is actually weak or ineffectual.

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Examples

  • Back when Sam went upstate, job searches required nothing more than a typewriter, some paper, and the classifieds.

  • “We would just as soon stay away from a group that will create controversy,” the Cubs general manager Sam Bernabe told the paper.

  • All of the big cats have a special mystique, but perhaps none more so than the tiger.

  • The reality TV mogul bared her butt—and everything else, too—for Paper Magazine in a spread that sent Twitter into a tizzy.

  • Fold the parchment paper with the dry ingredients in half and pour into the stand mixer.

  • Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • Bits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.

  • The Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.

  • "Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.