papel mojado
Spanish
Noun
- (idiomatic) something useless, something that has no authority, lip service, "not worth the paper it's written on"
- Su palabra es papel mojado.
- Those are just empty words.
- (idiomatic) dead letter (document that no longer has authority)
Further reading
- “papel mojado”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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