Is Your Mug of Tea Empty?

We often associate empty with physical objects, so like your mug. We can use empty in this sense with other nouns, for example, empty words or empty threats. In fact, Neil, don't you say every week that you'll buy me a coffee and then you don't? That is an empty promise. Of course, I'm going to buy them something for Christmas. Let's have a look at our next headline. This is from RTE. EU Proposal, the game changer at COP 27.