See stuffed shirt in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Coordinate term: empty suit"
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"ref": "1914, Samuel Hopkins Adams, chapter 30, in The Clarion:",
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"ref": "1941, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, Citizen Kane (motion picture), spoken by Jedediah Leland (Joseph Cotten), RKO Radio Pictures:",
"text": "Bernstein, am I a stuffed shirt? Am I a horse-faced hypocrite? Am I a New England school marm?",
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