all fur coat and no knickers »
Of superficial appearance and with no real substance beneath.
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all mouth and no trousers »
Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.
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all mouth and trousers »
Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.
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cop out »
To avoid or shirk, either by failing to perform, or by performing in a grossly insufficient, negligent, or superficial manner.
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different as chalk and cheese »
Two things which are superficially alike but very different in substance.
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skin deep »
superficial
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sugarcoated »
Made superficially more attractive. This often implies the reality has faults that are being hidden.
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take the shadow for the substance »
To be easily deceived, credulous, superficial.
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talk like an apothecary »
To use hard or gallipot words: from the assumed gravity and affectation of knowledge generally put on by the gentlemen of this profession, who are commonly as superficial in their learning as they are pedantic in their language.
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