mucho ruido y pocas nueces
Spanish
editEtymology
editLiterally, “much noise and few nuts”.
Noun
editmucho 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 (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28