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SABER RATTLING

saber rattling: translation

Synonyms and related words:
aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicose, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, bulldozing, chauvinism, combativeness, commination, contentiousness, denunciation, empty threat, ferocity, fierceness, fight, foreboding, hostility, idle threat, imminence, implied threat, intimidate, intimidation, jingoism, martialism, menace, militancy, militarism, promise of harm, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, sword of Damocles, threat, threateningness, threatfulness, truculence, unfriendliness, unpeacefulness, warmongering, warning, warpath

  1. saber rattling—saber rattling translationor[sword rattling] n. A show of military strength usually to frighten a threat of military force. The dictator marched his troops and tanks alo...Dictionary of American idioms
  2. saber rattling—saber rattling translationor[sword rattling] n. A show of military strength usually to frighten a threat of military force. The dictator marched his troops and tanks alo...Dictionary of American idioms
  3. saber rattling—n пропаганда войны разжигание военной истерии...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98