BLUFF
Brag Bluster
He who threatens is afraid
I cannot abide swaggerers.
II. King Henry IV., II., 4
We consider him a huge joke
He has parted company with the facts
He makes unqualified assertions
Farcical pretensions
With a great assumption of dignity
A sham so thin that it requires but one test to puncture it
By smooth words he can gloze over the fact that——
Very far adrift for explanations of——
Where there is no wind every man is a pilot
It was rather tall talk upon my part
The worst wheel always creaks most
He is camouflaging
He is certainly not making a reputation for accuracy by some of his statements
Too affected to be real
It is not an explanation, it is only an excuse
Too transparently foolish to fool anybody
Adroit excuses
The whole proceeding was theatrical
He played up the bogey of——
He is not playing the game as a sport