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Paper tiger   /pˈeɪpər tˈaɪgər/   Listen
Paper tiger

noun
1.
The nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual.





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"Paper tiger" Quotes from Famous Books



... incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity[obs3]; indocility[obs3]; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness. telum imbelle[Lat], brutum fulmen[Lat], blank, blank cartridge, flash in the pan, vox et proeterea nihil[Lat], dead letter, bit of waste paper, dummy; paper tiger; Quaker gun. inefficacy &c. (inutility) 645[obs3]; failure &c. 732. helplessness &c. adj.; prostration, paralysis, palsy, apoplexy, syncope, sideration|, deliquium|[Lat], collapse, exhaustion, softening of the brain, inanition; emasculation, orchiotomy [Med], orchotomy[Med]. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Paper tiger" :   impotence, impotency, powerlessness


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