What is "paper tigers"

Usage examples of "paper tigers".

Her morals and standards were useless when he took her in his arms, paper tigers that were vanquished by his first kiss.

Nor should you confuse them with the punks and paper tigers that run with .

It is time to tear up all paper tigers, to purge the levels and enforce a rigid discipline on this great society of ours.

Twenty thousand good infantry, marching like guardsmen and chanting their war-songs, transport and commissariat as fine as you could wish for, the whole advance perfectly conducted - but when I looked at those crenellated walls, with the Imp gunners blazing away long before our vanguard came in range, and the paper tigers and devil banners being waved from ramparts crowded with men .

They were paper tigers, these Dixie white boys, though Ellen Cherry would ever prefer them to Latino males: those guysMexicans, Puerto Ricans, some Italians, evenhad absolutely no sense of humor about themselves and got angry over offenses so small a woman required a microscope to identify them.