much cry and little wool
noun
Roget 482:
overestimation
etc.
v.;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
vanity
etc.
880;
optimism,
pessimism,
pessimist.
much cry and little wool,
much ado about nothing;
storm in a teacup,
tempest in a teacup;
fine talking.
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Roget 509:
disappointment;
blighted hope,
balk;
blow;
anticlimax;
slip 'twixt cup and lip;
nonfulfillment of one's hopes;
sad disappointment,
bitter disappointment;
trick of fortune;
afterclap;
false expectation,
vain expectation;
miscalculation
etc.
481;
fool's paradise;
much cry and little wool.
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Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
boast,
vaunt,
crake†;
pretense,
pretensions;
puff,
puffery;
flourish,
fanfaronade†;
gasconade;
blague†,
bluff,
gas [Slang];
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
hot air,
spread-eagleism [U.S.];
brag,
braggardism†;
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe;
jactitation†,
jactancy†;
bounce;
venditation†,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast,
fine talking,
tall talk,
magniloquence,
teratology†,
heroics;
Chauvinism;
exaggeration
etc.
549.
vanity
etc.
880;
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen [Lat.].
exultation;
gloriation†,
glorification;
flourish of trumpets;
triumph
etc.
883.
boaster;
braggart,
braggadocio;
Gascon [Fr.],
fanfaron†,
pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.];
blower [U.S.],
bluffer,
Foxy Quiller†;
blusterer
etc.
887;
charlatan,
jack-pudding,
trumpeter;
puppy
etc.
(fop)
854.
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