VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

All Bark And No Bite

Meaning:

Tending to make verbal threats but not deliver on them

Examples:

  • Landau's all bark and no bite. He confiscated my phone.
  • Lenny's all bark and no bite, mate.
  • All bark and no bite.
  • You see, all bark and no bite.
  • Mr President, this debate is proof that the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is all bark and no bite.
  • Khartoum knows that Europe is all bark and no bite and that is why today we are calling for new, strong, economic, legal and military measures.

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