papel mojado

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Spanish

Noun

papel mojado

  1. (idiomatic) something useless, something that has no authority, lip service, "not worth the paper it's written on"
    Su palabra es papel mojado.
    Those are just empty words.
  2. (idiomatic) dead letter (document that no longer has authority)

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