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Empty suits like Trump can only make empty promises ... "
Steve Colbert


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empty suit
noun
: an ineffectual executive

Examples of empty suit in a Sentence
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And Barry the man, especially during the 10-year height of his crime spree, remains a cipher, an empty suit, a literary type rather than a real character — a figure bereft of purpose, ideas and compelling pathos.
—Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 24 June 2024
Seinfeld plays Bob Cabana, the company’s head of development (loosely based on William Post), and Jim Gaffigan is Edsel Kellogg III, the head of the company, who’s still just a blowhard of an empty suit because all his success is inherited.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 3 May 2024


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empty promise
empty promise
A promise that is devoid of worth or meaning, one that cannot or was never intended to be carried out.
John may be a sweet-talker, but in reality, he's a lowlife full of empty promises.
I genuinely believed that they'd send me a replacement, but that turned out to be an empty promise!
Politicians have two skills—making empty promises and blaming other people when they fail to deliver on them.
See also: empty, promise
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See also:
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empty out
empty threat

Word History
First Known Use
1950, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of empty suit was in 1950