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empty suits
noun
Plural of empty suit
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Empty suits sit in sterile offices staring at computer screens and making greed-is-good speeches.
"I walk slowly into myself," he writes in "Postludium," "through a forest of empty suits of armor".
But it is the same old, same old: just another of cable drama's nicely tailored empty suits.
Mr. Bernanke has revealed many of these managers to be empty suits — and they are lashing out.
This false hierarchy has continued to be a problem: shows that look fantastic, like "House of Cards," get unearned prestige, even when they're empty suits.
Re "The Fashion of the Populist" (Thursday Styles, Feb. 2): If great fashion made the man, there would be fewer empty suits parading around the corridors of power!
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It became an empty suit.
(Mr. Bloomberg is an empty suit).
I see Ryan as an empty suit.
"Conceited, a pretty-boy empty suit.
Mr Jaitley sneers that "Rahul Gandhi is an empty suit.
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