sabre-rattling
English
Alternative forms
- saber-rattling (mostly US)
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Noun
sabre-rattling (countable and uncountable, plural sabre-rattlings)
Translations
display of military power as an implied threat
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figuratively: any threat
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Adjective
sabre-rattling (comparative more sabre-rattling, superlative most sabre-rattling)
- Bellicose; threatening military action.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 121:
- But it excited much discontent in sabre-rattling court circles which regarded Austrophilia as the most un-French of diplomatic perversions.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 121:
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