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paper tiger

DEFINITIONS OF: paper tiger

1

n the nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual

“he reminded Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth”
Type of:
impotence, impotency, powerlessness
the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
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