Sekirov Dictionary

saber-rattling

noun 2
adjective 1
forms 2

noun2

A flamboyant display of military power as an implied threat that it might be used.
(figurative) Any threat, such as one company threatening another with a lawsuit.

adjective1

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Bellicose; threatening military action.
- But it excited much discontent in sabre-rattling court circles which regarded Austrophilia as the most un-French of diplomatic perversions. — 2002

forms

saber rattlings · saber-rattlings

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