| 单词 | sabre-rattling |
| 释义 | > as lemmassabre-rattling sabre-rattling n. military aggression; threatening violent action; aggressive blustering; also as adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > military aggression aggression1611 sabre-rattling1922 society > armed hostility > war > militarism > [noun] > warmongering sword-rattling1914 sabre-rattling1922 warmongering1940 rocket-rattling1960 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > threatening with weapons or military force sword-rattling1914 sabre-rattling1922 rocket-rattling1960 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > threatening with weapons or military force sword-rattling1914 sabre-rattling1922 rocket-rattling1960 1922 Weekly Disp. 19 Nov. 8 A policy of adventure, sabre-rattling, and reckless expenditure. 1928 Observer 26 Feb. 16/4 A sabre-rattling gesture against a nation with whom we have been at peace for more than a hundred years. 1932 Bombay Chron. 5 Aug. 6 Henceforward sabre-rattling in Prussia will be severely taboo. 1958 H. M. Hayward & M. Harari tr. B. Pasternak Dr. Zhivago i. iv. 105 You have to swagger about in an officer's uniform too, you have to do your own bit of sabre-rattling. 1973 ‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog x. 136 A sabre-rattling pink-hating American. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds ii. 40 Look at the way that saber-rattling Churchill sent our men into something as useless as Gallipoli! 1977 Time 24 Oct. 8/1 Despite saber-rattling rhetoric, a steel war is far from inevitable. < as lemmas |
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