mucho ruido y pocas nueces
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “much noise and few nuts”.
Noun
[edit]mucho ruido y pocas nueces m (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) much ado about nothing; all bark and no bite, all talk and no action
- Synonym: ladra pero no muerde
Further reading
[edit]- “mucho ruido y pocas nueces”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10