empty suit
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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
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
At the back of a vintage-furnished trattoria near the Pantheon, stumble through a creaky armoire and you’re deposited in a dimly lit brick den, where an empty suit of knight’s armor spookily stands guard.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2016
He was seated across from us, looking like an empty suit of clothes starched into position.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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