lip service

1. N-UNCOUNT If you say that someone pays lip service to an idea, you are critical of them because they say they are in favour of it, but they do not do anything to support it. 口頭上的支持[usu N 'to' n/-ing] [表不滿]

Unhappily, he had done no more than pay lip service to their views. 不幸的是，他對他們的觀點衹予以口頭上的支持。