All talk and no trousers

[Anglika]

The female version is "fur coat and no knickers"

[Tdol]

I likle it, but isn't it slighly straining logic- if they have no knickers...

[didorianknight]

isn't this like an editted version of "All talk and trousers" ?

[Tdol]

There are various versions of this idiom going around. Apparently, it started in the north of England without the negative and picked up the negative on it's trip south.

[queenbu]

In Italian 'Tanto fumo ma niente arrosto' which means 'a lot of smoke but no roast(meat)'

[astana.kz]

all hat and no cattle implies the person thus described is a liar, a fraudster, not just a boaster who won't do what he says. it's a guy(or gal) who makes grandious claims that have no basis in reality. for somebody who talks the talk without walking the walk, as ur definition of the idiom all talk and no trousers suggests, all bark and no bite would be a better fit