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A paper tiger with a U.S. flag, symbolizing The United States (China Pictorial, August 1950 issue)
"Paper tiger" is a calque of the Chinese phrase zhǐlǎohǔ (simplified Chinese: 纸老虎; traditional Chinese: 紙老虎). The term refers to something or someone that claims or appears to be powerful or threatening but is actually ineffectual and unable to withstand challenge.
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).