VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

All Mouth And No Trousers

Meaning:

Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance

Examples:

  • You know what your problem is? Arrgh! All mouth and no trousers!
  • He talks a big game, but when it actually comes to asking out a woman, he's all mouth and no trousers.
  • It's certainly not all mouth and no trousers from me.
  • He’s all mouth and no trousers. If we put up a united front against him, he’ll crumble.
  • In the end they seem to have been all mouth and no trousers.
  • Newark was its big chance to show it wasn't all mouth and no trousers - and blew it.
  • A growing sense that it's all mouth and no trousers.
  • And her fun skirt pays lip service to the saying 'all mouth and no trousers'.
  • They tend to be all mouth and no trousers, or rather, all packaging, dire content.