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词组 be a paper tiger
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idiombe a paper tigerused in order to say that although a government, army, or organization is supposed to have a lot of power, really it does not have any:The Police Department was criticized for being a paper tiger, unable to discipline its chief and its top officers.General Schwarzkopf said that the military operation had shown the world that America was not a paper tiger.
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