paper tiger

纸老虎,造纸老虎,纸虎,老虎

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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

nounpowerless person or group

Synonyms

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.

纸老虎,造纸老虎,纸虎,老虎

n.名词 noun

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

nounpowerless person or group

Synonyms

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.