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КОРОЛЬ-ТО ГОЛЫЙ ГОЛЫЙ КОРОЛЬ VP subj. with copula, used as indep. sent (1st van) NP, sing only (2nd var. ) fixed WO

a person whose scholarly reputation, authority in some field etc turns out to be completely ungrounded, a theory that turns out to be false etc

but the emperor has nothing on at all!

the emperor has no clothes an emperor without (any) clothes.

«Ты мелкий эгоист и себялюбец. На этом моя сторона заканчивает дискуссию». - «А ты голый король, - ответил Юра, - генерал без армии. На этом моя сторона тоже заканчивает дискуссию» (Рыбаков 2). "You're small-minded, vain, conceited, and that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned." "And you're an emperor without any clothes, a general without an army. And that's the end of it as far as I'm concerned" (2a).

From the Russian translation of Hans Christian Andersen's "Emperor's New Clothes," 1837.