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Meaning of 放空炮

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fàng kōng pào
(lit.) to fire blank shots; (fig.) to be all talk and no action; to shoot one's mouth off; to make empty promises
Example Sentences
1
Now, none of your empty talk. Let's see how you act.
2
I am sorry, what did he mean shooting blanks?
3
He changed the blank practice of the elder philosophers.
4
Xiaoming always makes empty promises. Every year he says that he'll work hard, but he doesn't.
5
But it is neither a non-event, nor, as some critics allege, a reckless weakening of US security.