all talk and no trousers



all talk and no trousers

Full of boastful, arrogant, or shallow talk that never materializes into results. A variant of "all mouth and trousers," meaning the same thing. Primarily heard in UK. The team's manager keeps promising title after title, but he's seeming like all talk and no trousers at this point.
See also: all, and, talk, trouser

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Petronellape-tro-NE-lah (German)Dutch, German, Swedish
Rossellaros-SEL-lahItalian
JeriJER-eeEnglish
Wymond-Medieval English
FemkeFEM-kə (Dutch)Dutch, Frisian
Harendra-Indian, Hindi