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01-Apr-2006, 08:26
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Re: All talk and no trousers
The "trousers" part gives away its British roots immediately.
(I learned the hard way to stop referring to my trousers as "pants" when I was in the UK.)
"All talk and no action" would seem to be the American equivalent of this idiom.
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