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Fadysandy Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
"lip service" / "cause"
Several governments payed lip service to the women's cause.
What do they mean??
What do they mean??
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Several governments paid lip service to the women's cause. It means that those several governments expressed (verbal) support for the woman's cause (an agenda dealing with women's rights) but they (the governments) failed to put that verbal support into practice.
- Several governments paid lip service to the women's cause.
- It means that those several governments expressed (verbal) support for the woman's cause (an agenda dealing with women's rights) but they (the governments) failed to put that verbal support into practice.
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Several governments paid lip service to the women's cause.
It means that those several governments expressed (verbal) support for the woman's cause (an agenda dealing with women's rights) but they (the governments) failed to put that verbal support into practice.
It means that those several governments expressed (verbal) support for the woman's cause (an agenda dealing with women's rights) but they (the governments) failed to put that verbal support into practice.
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As you may have infered from the previous answer, in general, to pay lip service means to speak about an issue in support of it but not to put any action behind those words (or money, as in the case described above.) It implies at the most, a weak level of support not followed by action, and, at worse, some hypocricy in verbally seeming to support something but doing nothing about it.
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