saber rattling

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saber rattling

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

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saber rattling

Defiance

N defiance, daring, dare, challenge, cartel, threat, war cry, war whoop, chest-beating, chest-thumping, saber rattling, defiant, defying, with 'with arms akimbo', in defiance of, in the teeth of, under one's very nose, Int, do your worst!, come if you dare!, come on!, marry come up!, hoity toity!, noli me tangere, nemo me impune lacessit, don't tread on me, don't you dare, don't even think of it, Go ahead, make my day!.