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I just heard the term 「口ばっか大臣」in『荒ぶる季節の乙女どもよ』.
[Story](http://anicobin.ldblog.jp/archives/55861180.html)

> 菅原：体だけで見られてたって…今はかまわないです。だって…性欲と感情は切り離せないものだから  
>  和紗：ちょ…ちょっと待って！男子は性欲と感情を切り離して考えるって、菅原氏言ってた！確かに言ってた！  
>  菅原：だから、 **私は口ばっか大臣だったの**

It seems another similar term「口だけ大臣」is also in use. I may be under the wrong
impression they were idiomatic phrases. Are these terms idiomatic? If they are
where did these terms come from? Who were the terms first used to talk about?

Twitter has a lot of similar tags pointing to 安倍晋三 (examples:
[1](https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E5%8F%A3%E3%81%A0%E3%81%91%E5%A4%A7%E8%87%A3),
[2](https://twitter.com/hashtag/%E5%8F%A3%E3%81%A0%E3%81%91%E7%B7%8F%E7%90%86%E5%A4%A7%E8%87%A3)),
which is understandable since he is the longest-serving prime minister in
Japanese history and the most recent ex-prime minister. But some online
articles seem to point to [西村康稔](https://ameblo.jp/nagisa-
slot/entry-12598090234.html).

But if this is just an idiosyncratic expression, why does she say 「大臣」? Is it
a (obscure) historical reference?
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Where did the terms 「口ばっか大臣」「口だけ大臣」come from?
～大臣 is sometimes used as a humorous metaphor for someone in charge of
something in a group. Perhaps quite a few Japanese people have heard the
phrase 掃除大臣 (a pun on 総理大臣), who is someone in a family/office who is in
charge of cleaning. But this is a recurring joke at most, and I don't call it
an idiom. As for 口ばっか大臣, it is instantly understandable as a joke (politicians
are often 口ばっか), but it is just an idiosyncratic expression, as goldbrick said
in his comment.
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