all mouth and trousers
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all mouth and trousers
Where it comes from
From mouth, meaning "talk" rather than action, and trousers, presumably at the time of origin, a reference to masculinity, either as trousers as a male item of clothing, or a reference to the genitals.
adjective all mouth and no trousers
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Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.
Similar: all fart and no shit, all fart and no poo
Translations
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adj superficial
| Français | que de la gueule, rien dans le pantalon |
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| Deutsch | große Klappe, nichts dahinter |
| Italiano | tutto fumo e niente arrosto |
| Русский | брехня́ brexnjá, пуста́я бо́чка гро́мче греми́т pustája bóčka grómče gremít |
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title = {all mouth and trousers},
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