empty boast

Examples (10)

• His claim to be the best was just an empty boast.
• Their promises of quick wealth will turn out to be an empty boast.
• All his grand predictions were revealed as empty boasts after the project failed.
• The politician's declaration of solving the crisis overnight was nothing more than an empty boast.
• I suspect that his talk of having powerful connections will prove to be an empty boast.
• Was her claim of fluency in five languages an empty boast, or can she actually speak them?
• People grew tired of his empty boasts and stopped taking him seriously.
• Unlike his rival's empty boasts, her achievements spoke for themselves.
• What he presented as a guarantee was, in reality, an empty boast with no substance.
• Without any evidence to back it up, his assertion remains an empty boast.