What does the saying 'the empires new clothes' mean?

Question

What does the saying 'the empires new clothes' mean?

Answer 1

that your ignorant and that your a fool becuase you agree with what everyone thinks. like its like the bandwagon. when you follow everyone becuase everyone is doing it. and they all agree on the one thing.

Answer 2

im pretty sure its "the emperors new clothes" and to answer your question, i don't know

Answer 3

It means you have been fooled ,dooped taken advantage of,tricked,coned,lied to,made a fool of,you are a laughing stock,on and on .

Answer 4

It comes from an old, old story that is now mostly found in children's books.  The story is about a tailor that was supposed to make a new suit for the emperor, but instead he came up with a scam, pretending to sew a new suit, and told everyone that only the most elite could see the clothes.  No one wanted to admit they couldn't see them, including the emperor, so when the "suit" was finished, the tailor pretended to put it on the emperor and he paraded down the street naked.  Finally, a child, who didn't know enough to be politically correct, asked why the emperor was naked, and the jig was up.  The expression, "the emperor's new clothes" therefore refers to a scam.

Answer 5

It's from the fairy tale by the same title.

It refers to the Emperor, who was fooled (by his tailor) into thinking he was wearing the finest magical fabric in the world, but in fact he wasn't wearing any clothes at all.  He walked around naked but no one was brave enough to confront his nakedness (what, with him being the powerful 'emperor' and all).

In general, when something that is plainly obvious and plainly wrong, is ignored, referring to the situation as "the emperor's new clothes" is appropriate.

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Answer 6

I believe you mean The Emperor' New Clothes, it's not a quote or expression, it's a children's story that teaches a moral against vanity. Here is a link to the entire story, hope you like it.

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/Emperors...