claptrap

/ˈklæpˌtɹæp/

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. isim Empty verbiage or nonsense.

    “Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.”

  2. isim A device for producing a clapping sound in theaters.
  3. isim A device or trick to gain applause; a humbug.

    “There had been a suggestion that the child should be with her [while she answers the door], but the mother herself had rejected this. "It would be stagey," she had said, "and clap-trap. There is nothing I hate so much as that."”

Eş anlamlılar

hot air palaver waffle absurdity all my eye all my eye and Betty Martin applesauce bafflegab balderdash balls baloney banana oil Bandini baragouin batcrap batshit bilgewater blah blather blatherskite

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