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пустое словоstresses
el. dummy word
ling. form word; functional word; grammatical word; function word; syncategorematic word
math. empty word
пустые слова
пустые обещания
gen. fluent phrases; rainmaking; verbality; phrase; wish-wash; phrases; mere verbiage; razzmatazz; hollow words; empty phrase; lip service; wish wash; verbalism; wind; weasel words (Taras); balderdash; froth; mere words (I. Havkin); milling the wind (Ремедиос_П); words of course; lip labour; words; vain words
Игорь Миг doubletalk; gab fest; empty bluster
bank. game of semantics (akimboesenko)
dipl. bluster
idiom. all mouth and no trousers (feihoa); all wind and piss (george serebryakov)
inf., low hooey
Makarov. empty words; idle words
obs. bilk
polit. soundbite (Yuri Fedoroff)
proverb leaves without figs
quot.aph. sound and fury (Shakespeare)
slang flannel
пустое слово: 37 phrases in 7 subjects
Diplomacy1
Figurative3
General20
Idiomatic6
Makarov3
Programming3
Rhetoric1