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what does " to be more than an empty shell " mean? is it really only something that more than empty shell or is it an idiom in english which has some special meaning?
full sentence is : According to the present authors, the answer must be affirmative if the concept of counter-intervention is to be more than an empty shell.
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2021年12月5日 19:55
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To be “more than an empty shell” means something is completely what it appears to be, or it has substance. Something that’s an empty shell is something hollow — it has only the external appearance of an object/person/idea but in truth there isn’t much too it.
It’s similar to the expression that someone is a “shell of a their formal self,” which you might say if someone has been down in the dumps and not quite “themselves.” They look like themselves on the outside (their “shell”) but something intangible is missing inside.
2021年12月6日
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