empty suit
Example Sentences
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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
McCarthy is an empty suit, a man without taste or style.
From Salon ● Jan. 12, 2023
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
Fans saw Cerrato as Snyder’s pawn, a powerless empty suit who merely carried out the owner’s bidding.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2019
"If I did, my word would be as hollow as an empty suit of armor. My life is not so precious to me as that."
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
