paper tiger

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If this is what the paper tiger SEC decided to charge GE with, who knows what creativity really took place?
如果紙老虎的證交會決定就這樣指控GE的話，誰知道還有什么創(chuàng)舉發(fā)生？
All they have really done is be a paper tiger and crying crocodile tears and calling me to offer moral support.
他們所做的不過是紙老虎行為，都是鱷魚的眼淚，對我有點精神支持。
If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never, ever exist and if it does exist it need never, ever progress.
如果每個人都知道一個真相，那么冠心病就會像紙老虎一樣，根本就不存在了，就是存在，也不會對你造成危害。

When you hear paper tiger whispered in a business meeting, put your hackles up.
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something, such as an enemy or foreign country, that seems very strong and dangerous but is really weak and not harmful

If you say that an institution, a country, or a person is a paper tiger, you mean that although they seem powerful they do not really have any power.