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vox; a mere name; only a name; empty phrase (Anglophile); mere words (Anglophile); meaningless phrase (Anglophile); hot air (things that someone says that are intended to sound impressive but do not really mean anything or are not true: The theory was dismissed as a lot of hot air. LDCE Alexander Demidov); all cry and no wool (baletnica); dial tone (иносказательно: It all just a dial tone for him vogeler) | |||
false dawn | |||
empty words | |||
water under the bridge (Pchelka911) | |||
et praeterea nihil |
пустой звук : 17 phrases in 7 subjects |
General | 5 |
Idiomatic | 6 |
Makarov | 1 |
Mass media | 2 |
Politics | 1 |
Religion | 1 |
Rhetoric | 1 |