ring hollow
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ring hollow (third-person singular simple present rings hollow, present participle ringing hollow, simple past rang hollow, past participle rung hollow)
- (idiomatic) To seem to be false or implausible; to be unconvincing.
- 1901, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 9, in The Hero:
- In his own ears the words he spoke rang hollow, awkward, even impertinent. He could say nothing which did not seem hideously supercilious.
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to seem to be false
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