Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—L

Lip Service

Verbal devotion. Honouring with the lips while the heart takes no part nor lot in the matter. (See Matt, xv. 8, Isa. xxix. 13.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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