all mouth and trousers

adj

Etymology

From mouth, meaning "talk" rather than action, and trousers, presumably at the time of origin, a reference to masculinity, either as trousers as a male item of clothing, or a reference to the genitals.

Definitions

  1. Superficial, engaging in empty, boastful talk, but not of real substance.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for all mouth and trousers. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA