paper tiger in English
noun
1
a person or thing that appears threatening but is ineffectual.
In the event, it turns out that the SEC has imposed no sanction of any material consequence, and is in danger of becoming a paper tiger under new chairman, Harvey Pitt.
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1. 4 Mobile Payments: Killer App or Paper Tiger?
2. 17 The Soviet Union was suddenly revealed as a paper tiger.
3. Without legislative measures in the field of warning labels and advertising bans, the alcohol strategy will be a paper tiger.
4. 19 The managing director has the nominal power but he is a paper tiger, and it is his assistant who actually runs the company.