"all show and no go" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1890, Cosmopolitan, Volume 8, Hearst Corporation, page 107",
          "text": "“You know you are, and here you are doing all you can to marry nice, rich, little Kitty Marling to a man,—a kind of piebald circus horse, curious to look at, all show and no go. A duller man I don't know. Romance and you trying your best to keep Kitty from Wrexford, who's a sort of nineteenth-century Sidney.”",
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          "ref": "2008, Brigitte Gabriel, Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America, St. Martin's Publishing Group, page 82",
          "text": "We who could benefit from the UN's taking action felt that they were all show and no go. The UN troops appeared to be some form of international effort to solve a problem, but they were actually making the situation worse.",
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          "ref": "2013, Steve Farrar, Real Valor: A Charge to Nurture and Protect Your Family, David C Cook, page 72",
          "text": "When it came to famine and suffering, he looked for the nearest exit. He failed Hell Week. He was all show and no go. In Texas they have a term for that: Big hat, no cattle.",
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          "ref": "2014, Tony Perez-Giese, Send More Idiots: A Novel, Archway Publishing, page 197",
          "text": "The uniform of tight jeans and tube tops, slinky skirts and three-inch heels, however, is all show and no go.",
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        "having only superficial qualities"
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          "text": "“You know you are, and here you are doing all you can to marry nice, rich, little Kitty Marling to a man,—a kind of piebald circus horse, curious to look at, all show and no go. A duller man I don't know. Romance and you trying your best to keep Kitty from Wrexford, who's a sort of nineteenth-century Sidney.”",
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