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| vox; a mere name; only a name; empty phrase (Anglophile); mere words (Anglophile); meaningless phrase (Anglophile); hot air (things that someone says that are intended to sound impressive but do not really mean anything or are not true: The theory was dismissed as a lot of hot air. LDCE Alexander Demidov); all cry and no wool (baletnica); dial tone (иносказательно: It all just a dial tone for him vogeler) | |||
| false dawn | |||
| empty words | |||
| water under the bridge (Pchelka911) | |||
| et praeterea nihil | |||
| пустой звук: 17 phrases in 7 subjects |
| General | 5 |
| Idiomatic | 6 |
| Makarov | 1 |
| Mass media | 2 |
| Politics | 1 |
| Religion | 1 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |