idle words
Example Sentences
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"Our actions aren't idle words or dead letters on the page," he said.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2022
Those may seem idle words, until you recall that Engine No. 1 has already shaken up one company — Exxon Mobil, in one of the most startling proxy fights of recent times.
From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2021
La Russa, of course, preached the positive, but they were not idle words.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2010
For the first time in a decade they were not idle words.
From Time Magazine Archive
And of course he did not say the false, idle words.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
