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all icing, no cake

all icing, no cake noun: synonym of all talk and no action.

Noun

all icing, no cake (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of all talk and no action.

Synonyms of all icing, no cake

Questions about all icing, no cake

What does all icing, no cake mean?
All icing, no cake means synonym of all talk and no action.
What part of speech is all icing, no cake?
All icing, no cake is a noun.

Words near all icing, no cake in the dictionary

  1. All Holiness
  2. All Holinesses
  3. all hollow
  4. all hope abandon ye who enter here
  5. all hope abandon, ye who enter here
  6. all icing, no cake
  7. all in
  8. all in a day's work
  9. all in all
  10. all in good time
  11. all in one piece

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