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empty suit

[emp-tee soot] / ˈɛmp ti ˈsut /




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Jessie saying "night night" and giving a salute to an empty suit of armour on her way out of the castle one evening was perhaps the epitome of her brilliant eccentricity.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026

He's an empty suit of plastic emotions bound in hubris and anger.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2024

Until Augusta National faces that responsibility, its fabled green jacket is just another empty suit.

From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2021

Mr. Ossoff, meanwhile, is presenting a clean-cut look, offering himself up as a policy-wise technocrat and pushing back against attempts to cast him as an empty suit.

From Washington Times • Dec. 23, 2020

He’s a scarecrow, an empty suit of straw.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin