sizzle

all sizzle and no steak

Disappointing or anticlimactic. Having an exciting, promising, important, or aggrandizing buildup that proves to be unwarranted. Everyone is in a panic over the supposed water shortages, but personally I think the whole thing is all sizzle and no steak. The film had a lot of hype before its release, but after seeing it, I think it's all sizzle and no steak.

sizzle a wild card word for words beginning with

S , such as suck, smoke, sister. (Streets. Also for other words with initial S.) Come on, sizzle, time to go.

See also: beginning, card, sizzle, wild, word

sizzled

mod. alcohol intoxicated. (see also fried.) I’d like to go out tonight and get sizzled—maybe that would help me forget Tiffany. Harold got himself sizzled and couldn’t drive to the dance.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ionathan	-	Biblical Greek, Biblical Latin
Johan	YOO-ahn (Swedish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch
Mielikki	-	Finnish Mythology
Nomiki	-	Greek
Nikolao	nee-ko-LAH-o	Esperanto
Blagica	-	Macedonian