court holy water

noun

(obsolete) Pleasant but empty words, insincere promises or flattery.

The court was filled with holy water, but their promises were just empty words.

意味（1）

(obsolete) Pleasant but empty words, insincere promises or flattery.

The King & his Nobles thinke they may ſleepe in quiet,

Now they haue giuen vs a little holy water at the Court,

But thers no ſuch matter, we be no ſuch fooles,

To be bobd out with words and after come to hanging: […]