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the emperor's new clothes
idiom
used to describe a situation in which most people praise or seem to believe something that is false or has no value, because they are afraid to go against the general opinion. This refers to a story in which an emperor(= a powerful ruler) is sold new clothes that do not really exist, and nobody except a young boy is willing to say publicly that the emperor is naked:
The River of Fire was supposed to be a wall of flame that would race up the Thames at nearly 800 miles an hour, but, like the emperor's new clothes, nobody quite dared to admit that they couldn't see it.
Like the little boy in The Emperor's New Clothes, she calmly stated what many were thinking and some were whispering.
We have been too willing to accept that the emperor had new clothes.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Faking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
bluff someone into something/doing something
changeling
cry
false
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
feign
pass something off as something
phoney
phony-baloney
play-act
play-acting
professed
purport
quack
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