paper tiger

Etymology
, a slogan used by.

Noun

 * 1)  A seemingly fierce or powerful person, country or organisation without the ability to back up their words; apparently powerful but actually ineffective.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 好哄頭
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: papirtiger
 * Dutch: papieren tijger
 * Esperanto: papera tigro
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: tigre de papel
 * German:
 * Greek: χάρτινη τίγρη
 * Hebrew: רוח וצלצולים
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: tíogar páipéir
 * Italian: tigre di carta, scatola vuota
 * Japanese: 張り子の虎
 * Khmer: ខ្លាក្រដាស
 * Korean: 종이호랑이
 * Malay: harimau kertas
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: tigre de papel
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: tigre de papel
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: kağıttan kaplan
 * Ukrainian: паперо́вий тигр