OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 42225

all talk and no action

Meanings (ES + gloss)
mucho hablar y poco hacer • mucho lerele y poco larala • mucho ruido y pocas nueces
Speaking, promising, or boasting much, but doing little; overpromising, but underdelivering.
We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action—constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.
Well, you need somebody, because politicians are all talk, no action. Nothing's gonna get done. They will not bring us—believe me—to the promised land. They will not.
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