paper tiger
Noun
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The nature of a person or organization that appears powerful but is actually powerless and ineffectual (synset 105214620)
"he reminded Mao that the paper tiger had nuclear teeth"is a type of: impotence, impotency, powerlessness - the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
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