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saber-rattling
[ sey-ber-rat-ling ]
noun
- a show or threat of military power, especially as used by a nation to impose its policies on other countries.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of saber-rattling1
Idioms and Phrases
A flamboyant display of military power; also, aggressive blustering. For example, There had been a great deal of saber rattling between the two nations but hostilities had never broken out . This term, originating about 1920 and alluding to an officer indicating he would draw his saber, at first referred to threatening military force but later was extended to more general use, as in Both candidates engaged in pre-debate saber rattling .Example Sentences
The White House's saber-rattling against the American judiciary, a body conceived to hold government officials and elected politicians in check, prompted a rare rebuke from Supreme Court chief justice John G. Roberts.
Trump has kept to his saber-rattling words.
That may be what Trump鈥檚 saber-rattling, in the end, is all about.
And, overall, the tone is much more contentious than during the West Coast negotiations, where there was relatively little saber-rattling and few people on either side viewed a strike as a serious threat.
In a statement Monday, after the labor board鈥檚 most recent ruling against the university system, UAW Local 4811 President Rafael Jaime called on 鈥淯C to face reality,鈥 charging it with 鈥渓egal saber-rattling.鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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