- saber rattling as a noun:
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saber rattling
noun
1 saber rattling
The ostentatious display of military power (with the implied threat that it might be used).
synonym: sabre rattling.
Roget 715: defiance; daring etc. v.; dare; challenge, cartel†; threat etc. 909; war cry, war whoop. chest-beating, chest-thumping; ... show more
Dutch: wapengekletter
Moby thesaurus: aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, bellicism, bellicose, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, bulldozing, chauvinism, combativeness, commination, contentiousness, denunciation, empty threat, ferocity, fierceness, fight, foreboding, hostility ... show more.
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