lip service

The insincere verbal expression of something, especially friendship, loyalty, respect, support, etc. Used especially in the phrase "give/pay lip service to something." All of the grand promises the president made in her campaign speeches turned out to be nothing but lip service. The local council members pay lip service each year to a renewed plan to tackle homelessness, but no one ever expects them to follow through.

lip service

Verbal but insincere expression of agreement or support. It is often put as pay or give lip service , as in They paid lip service to holding an election next year, but they had no intention of doing so . [Mid-1600s]

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释义	lip service lip service The insincere verbal expression of something, especially friendship, loyalty, respect, support, etc. Used especially in the phrase "give/pay lip service to something." All of the grand promises the president made in her campaign speeches turned out to be nothing but lip service. The local council members pay lip service each year to a renewed plan to tackle homelessness, but no one ever expects them to follow through. See also: lip, service Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. lip service Verbal but insincere expression of agreement or support. It is often put as pay or give lip service , as in They paid lip service to holding an election next year, but they had no intention of doing so . [Mid-1600s] See also: lip, service The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. See also: stick at keep in there Keep in there! old enough to be (one's) mother old enough to be mother taco stand keep at keep at (someone or something) the jaws of (something) the jaws of death, defeat, etc. References in periodicals archive In Lip Service she played plain-clothes detective sergeant Sam Murray, the stable and sensible love interest of lead character Cat (Scottish actress Laura Fraser). 'I've been gigging forever but no-one noticed 'til now' She may have shot to fame as a star of TV drama London's Burning but Heather Peace has always enjoyed singing too. As she prepares to visit Cardiff on tour, she tells Alison Stokes why she prefers the DIY approach to making music Repentance is best expressed through actions not lip service. Asian editorial excerpts Lip service is paid to Steven Holl, Herzog and de Meuron, Juhani Pallasmaa and Peter Zumthor, so we instinctively know we are in safe hands. Sense of places Whether your problems are foreign competition, regulatory burden, health care, a lack of skilled labor and/or a demanding customer base, these issues must be addressed every day and not just given lip service. What have you done at your facility to find a solution to any of your non-production ills? A look in the mirror For all the show's lip service to this effect, positivistic science this is not. "The Art of Science": International Center of Photography Ambitious and focused, she appeared regularly in MTV's "The Grind," VH-1's "80's Dance Party," and "Lip Service." In 1997 she was hired to choreograph for the New Jersey Nets dance team. Street to stage: Rhapsody's mission While Mexican President Vicente Fox gave Bush's plan lukewarm lip service, less compliant presidents such as Brazil's Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, called for trashing Bush's free-trade mantra in favor of anti-poverty programs aimed directly at ending the glaring economic disparities which blight Central and South America. Dealing with redundancy: will universal education in a free-market economy survive? Most consequentialists are morally superior to their theory and, thankfully, pay it only lip service. Coercion vs. Consent The companies raised false hopes among my constituents and, although lip service was paid to making an effort to identify alternative sites, I am satisfied that it was merely lip service and not a serious intent.' Villagers blaming phone mast for cancer cases I pray that there will be a healing between the church and Dorian, for the church needs evangelists like him, but at times I think that the Anglican church only gives lip service to evangelism. Faithful Anglican. (Letters) Outlandish Blues, the second collection by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, argues for the power and fearlessness of the blues lyric and the gospel shout--traditional forms often given (literary) lip service, but rarely allowed to show true creative power. Outlandish Blues Davis endorsed the faith-based plan, telling attendees, "God gets a great deal of lip service in this world. White House official promotes faith-based plan at Moon event. (People & Events) Though he pays lip service to the post-Gorbachev softening of Reagan's stance, Schweizer sees it as--you guessed it--perfectly consistent with Reagan's decades-old master plan. Gilding the Gipper While paying lip service to Luther's achievement and acknowledging its necessity, he criticized the reformer's harshness to Christians of differing views and his softness to the bigamy of Philipp of Hesse. Pierre Bayle's Reformation: Conscience and Criticism on the Eve of the Enlightenment. (Reviews) machine tool industry and lip service from politicians won't make them disappear. This is help? (Editorial)
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