'saber rattling' definitions:
Definition of 'saber rattling'
(from WordNet)
noun
The ostentatious display of military power (with the implied threat that it might be used) [syn: saber rattling, sabre rattling]
Synonyms of 'saber rattling'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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