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"All fur coat and no knickers" nghĩa là gì?
11 Dec, 2020
"All fur coat and no knickers" = (mặc) áo choàng lông nhưng không có đồ lót -> nghĩa là chỉ được cái mã bề ngoài.
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Judging the book by its cover, you’d think the library would be sprawling (trải dài) off the page. Instead, the library has for some time been “all fur coat and no knickers”; whittled down (cắt xén) to a budget line that grows with nothing to show.
THIS bombastic (khoa trương) Jamie Foxx action thriller (giật gân, ly kỳ) has potential, but is ultimately all fur coat and no knickers. If you could take a pill that would give you superpowers for five minutes, you’d take it, right?
This team from the Parc des Princes are the best footballing example of a team being all fur coat and no knickers — although maybe this team are proving they do have some substance (tố chất) after all.
‘These have a lovely yeasty bakery bread smell. There’s not much fudge (kẹo mềm) inside, but I like the texture a lot. The flavour is all fur coat and no knickers – there’s no discernible flavour, and no sea salt.’
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