“Empty suit” refers to an unimportant, ineffective person, often used as an insult towards politicians. Its origin is unclear, but it may date back to Greek mythology. In the late 1960s, “suits” referred to conformist capitalists, while in movies, FBI members are sometimes called “suits.”
The word seed has several meanings. It can refer to a suit, one of the four suits of playing cards, a petition or appeal, or a search for something. Sometimes a person is described as “a suit,” or more properly an empty suit. This has a completely different meaning than most other definitions of dress and has only a slight knowledge of “dress of clothing”.
An empty suit tends to refer to an unimportant person, perhaps someone bloated with their own importance but having very little effect on the lives of others. It is often used as an insult to disparage others who don’t actually deserve the title. The true hollow suit, which conjures up the image of a business suit without a person, doesn’t actually know what he’s doing. He or she is ineffective, perhaps a forgery, and is as important or useful as a suit hanging on a rack.
Calling someone an empty suit implies that you think they are a complete waste of time. Editorials about politicians are fond of using the term empty suit to describe people looking for presidential office. This or that politician is just “an empty suit”, to quote the words of numerous political critics, and therefore does not deserve our attention.
Some politicians deserve the title. A senator with a very poor voting record or failure to attend Senate sessions could clearly be called an empty suit because he’s not really doing the job he was elected to do. On the other hand, some politicians may advertise themselves as “not just an empty suit” to distinguish themselves from their implied peers.
Tracing the origin of the word empty seed is difficult. There is some suggestion in Greek mythology, credited to the classical Greek playwright Euripides, that Helen, married to Menelaus and stolen by Paris, was actually sequestered on an island by Apollo. Paris actually stole an empty image or an empty tunic of Helen, rather than the real woman. So the idea that someone is fake, fake, or not really there, and just an empty robe or tunic, may be a concept that has been in use for over 2,000 years.
From the late 1960s onwards “suits” also referred to people who lived a conformist lifestyle, as opposed to the hippie lifestyle. The suits were mainstream people who lived and died by the principles of capitalism rather than the semi-Marxist attitudes adopted by the hippies. In this usage, a “dress” was considered a derogatory term by a hippie and associated with “the establishment.”
In the movies, you also see FBI members referred to as “the suits,” after members of local police departments. The arrival of the suits is often described as resentful because it usually means local police involvement is terminated or directed by the FBI. There are numerous movie examples of the word dressed up to mean FBI, but cooperative efforts to solve real crimes by local law enforcement and FBI members suggest that local police often welcome the FBI’s presence in investigations and don’t he sees suitable FBI members as empty clothes.
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