all hat and no cattle

形容词 adj.
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英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Full of big talk but lacking action, power, or substance; pretentious. US,idiomatic,not-comparable
    — 1980, Patricia Calvert, The Snowbird, Scribner, →ISBN, page 29, A fortune can be made on the prairie, and that's what me and Mr. B aim to do. Don't aim to be all hat and no cattle forever, let me tell you!

词源

In reference to cattle ranchers and the hats they stereotypically wear; also derives from people wearing cowboy hats as fashion, but who are not actually cowboys, i.e., a poser, or a pretentious and phony individual.
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