| gen. |
работник, который не выполняет важную работу или устроился по протекции (someone who is high up in a company due to unfair hiring practices, such as nepotism, and doesn't really do anything for the company; who makes themselves out to be much more able or important than they really are; who is not particularly good at their job 30STMania); пустая фигура (chiefly US informal A prominent person regarded as lacking substance, personality, or ability. OD: They're a bunch of Ivy League empty suits • Hidden beneath enormous pinstripes, he seemed like the sartorial embodiment of a political hack – literally, an empty suit. • I wasn't born into the corporation like some of the empty suits. • Maybe the empty suits mismanaging the Corporation will even be fired. Alexander Demidov) |
